Listed Building: HOLME GRANGE THE MEWS COTTAGE AND LINKING WALL WITH ATTACHED MOUNTING BLOCK (1247519)

Coach house and stables with attached wall and mounting block; now 2 dwellings with garages. Late C17 and early-mid C18, altered. Coursed limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings, stone slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 parallel 5-window ranges each of 2 storeys with one-storey additions at south end and linked at north end by a screen wall with doorway and attached mounting block; cobbled central courtyard. Holme Grange is probably early-mid C18 and occupies eastern range: large quoins; broad central doorway with quoins and keystone; ashlar surrounds to 2/2 sashes. First-floor band, eaves band and moulded cornice; ashlar gable copings with weather-vane at right end. Ashlar stack at eaves between bays 1 and 2. Right return: dovecote in gable head with round-arched panel pierced by 3 rows of holes. Left return: external stone steps to a gable doorway. Western range is probably late C17 and forms outbuildings to Holme Grange and partly now The Mews Cottage. Large quoins; 3 quoined doorways to left, central opening with boarded door the others now windows. 2 square hatch openings, the left opening now a window. To ground-floor right are 3 linked basket arches each with double doors. Left end arch has corbelled left springer and raised keystone. Dated lead hopper 'J.H. 1847'; eaves cornice and gable copings. Rear quoined central doorway now bricked up; 2 rows of blocked slit vents; various inserted windows. INTERIOR: has principal-rafter trusses with diagonal struts and collars. Linking wall rises above first-floor band of Holme Grange and has rounded steps to central round-arched doorway in ashlar panel with moulded imposts; wall copings above surmounted by round-arched bellcote with finial. To right is an ashlar mounting block with 4 steps to each side of a nosed platform set above a round-arched dog kennel. Formed the stable block to Holme Hall (qv). Listing NGR: SK2156269040