Sheriffhales Manor

Sheriffhales Manor, Sheriffhales

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1053649
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
Sheriffhales Manor
Statutory Address:
Sheriffhales Manor, Sheriffhales
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1053649
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
Sheriffhales Manor
Statutory Address 1:
Sheriffhales Manor, Sheriffhales

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Sheriffhales Manor, Sheriffhales

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Sheriffhales
National Grid Reference:
SJ 75657 12094

Details

SJ 71 SE
4/13

SHERIFFHALES CP
SHERIFFHALES
Sheriffhales Manor

29.9.51.

GV
II
House. Late C16, C17, and heavily restored circa 1952. Timber framed with much painted timber and rendered infill panels, decorated with concave lozenges and balusters in porch and cross wing. C20 tile roofs with partial catslide over outshut to rear.

Irregular cruciform plan with four framed bays to left, projecting four framed bay gabled cross wing off-centre to right, three framed bays to right, and two storey gabled porch off-centre to left. Two storeys and garret with two storey and attic cross wing. Porch and cross wing with jettied first floors, plain barge boards with pierced finials, central ridge stack, ridge stack on cross wing off-centre to right, and large stone stack to right at rear with three square brick shafts. Irregular 1:1:1:1:3 window front. C20 leaded mullioned and transomed and cross windows. C17 four-centred nailed door in porch off-centre to left with four arched panels, two square panels beneath with raised lozenges, and guilloche enriched architrave; C20 French casements off-centre to right.

Interior: restored three-flight C17 square well staircase with square newels, bulbous finials, arcaded balustrade and moulded handrail; two fireplace overmantels of three bays with arched panels, one with tapered Ionic pilasters; such re-ordered panelling; queen strut roof trusses.

The Rev. John Woodhouse, Puritan Divine, kept an Academy or Provincial University here, c 1675-1696.

Listing NGR: SJ7565712094

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Legacy System number:
255205
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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