- in Old Scots, a grange could be either a barn or store-house for grain, or a farming establishment (often belonging to a religious house or a feudal lord) with granaries for storing crops. Sir Walter Scott's novel, The Antiquary (1816), makes reference to this meaning of the word, in the description of
a grange, or solitary farm-house, inhabited by the bailiff, or steward, of the monastery.
The term was borrowed from Old French and is first recorded in Scots sources from the fifteenth century. It often occurs in place-names in combination with a pre-existing name, as in Grange of Conon in Angus, Grange of Lindores in Fife, and Grange of Cree in Wigtownshire.