Cottage, Grange Farm (Sawtry Abbey Grange)

History of Swatry Abbey Grange

Listed Building

Late C17, and C19. Timber-framed, plaster and roughcast rendered. C19 brick casing, painted to front wall and to small extensions on the rear.

The Cistercian Abbey at Sawtry had two granges in 1278. The ‘old’ grange was on the site of Grange Farm but no trace of the medieval buildings survive. The abbey was dissolved in 1536 and the lands granted to Richard Williams (alias Cromwell). The grange was demolished. A ‘new’ grange was situated just north of Archer’s Wood but this was destroyed in 1980.