Grange House, Earlsferry

Classical Laird's House incorporating earlier building, 3 storey, 5 bay front to south: door at centre has lugged surround and cornice over, flanking windows have plain projecting margins. Outer bays advanced with round-headed key-blocked windows at ground and 1st floors, oculi at attic and gabled with straight skews, moulded skew-puts and rectangular coped and corniced stacks, rubble walls with ashlar dressings, remains of harling at flanks and rear, roofless. Quadrant walls link house to single-storey rectangular pavilions at SE and SW. The SE pavilion has a blocked door to the west and a piended pantiled roof. The west pavilion, now GRANGE Cottages has been modernised and enlarged with single-storey extensions to south and east, harled with a gable to the south and pantiled roof piended to the north. Quadrant die-walls, formerly with railings over, from the pavilions close the fore-court to the south with a pair of panelled and corncied ashlar gatepiers at cen.

Although roofless the building survives almost intact to the wallheads. Shown as a ruin on 1855 OS Map. The farm-house built shortly after this date to replace Grange House is not too altered to merit listing.(Historic Scotland)

It has been suggested that the Earl of Mar held meetings in the house with fellow Jacobites (includings the owners, the Malcolms of Grange) during the 1715 uprising.

September 2000: Local planners request that the house be added to the Buildings at Risk Register. It has stood roofless since fire in 1860, though it remains intact almost to the wallhead. The owners do not have plans for the house but would not be prepared to sell. Its surrounding land has now been subdivided and the owners wish to build a new house immediately to the east. The west pavilion has been converted into a cottage, whilst the east pavilion is in use as stables. April 2004: Local planners are unaware of any change. October 2006: Ownership details are confirmed and owner reports that there is no change. October 2007: External inspection reveals urgent attention is required to consolidate the building and avoid the increasing structural damage.

March 2009: A member of the public contacts SCT to advise the the property remains at risk.

January 2011: External inspection finds no significant change from the last site visit. The property continues to deteriorate and is a cause for concern.

7 August 2014: External inspection finds the building remains in much the same condition as seen previously.

28 October 2015: The property is currently being marketed for sale as a development opportunity through agents Strutt and Parker, offers over £150,000 being sought. The marketing particulars note restoration and conversion of the property to form two dwellings was conditionally approved Apr 2013 ref: 12/00683/FULL & 12/00690/LBC.

2 March 2018: The property does not appear to remain under marketing for sale at this time.

24 April 2019: External inspection reveals no significant changes from previous visit; the building remains a roofless ruin. No evidence of building being under marketing for sale.