Building Name

Ely Grange Frant Sussex

Date
1881
District/Town
Frant
County/Country
Sussex, England
Client
F H Kay
Work
New build

ELY GRANGE, FRANT. - Ely Grange is a property at Frant, three or four miles from Tunbridge Wells, and belongs to F. H. Kay, Esq., for whom the house and lodge illustrated have been erected. The materials are Hooker's red bricks from Dunton Green, Corsham Down stone, local tiles for hanging, and Broseley tiles for the roofs. The chimney‑stacks are of rubbed bricks. The exterior woodwork is generally of a dark claret, the balusters being painted white. The house has been planned with a central hall, top‑lighted, with a gallery at first‑floor level round three sides, and a high chimney‑piece against the unoccupied wall. On the main staircase off one corner of the hall is a large stained glass window, which aids in lighting and ventilating it. The doors, linings, dados, and chimney‑pieces to principal rooms and hall are either of oak or walnut, the dining‑room and hall ceilings of timber, those of the drawing room and morning‑room of moulded plaster. The work has been carried out by Messrs. George Mansfield and Son, of Tunbridge Wells, from the designs and under the direction of Messrs Ed. Salomons and R. Selden Wornam, architects, London. - The small plan given with the others shows the distribution of the rooms in the entrance‑lodge, of which building we hope soon to give a view, as well as ground‑plan and details of the Grange itself [Building News 16 September 1881 page 360]

Reference           Building News 16 September 1881 page 360 and illustration