Decker Hill and entrance courtyard to east

Decker Hill and entrance courtyard to east, B4379

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176128
Date first listed:: 25-May-1955
List Entry Name:: Decker Hill and entrance courtyard to east
Statutory Address:: Decker Hill and entrance courtyard to east, B4379

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176128
Date first listed:: 25-May-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: Decker Hill and entrance courtyard to east
Statutory Address 1:: Decker Hill and entrance courtyard to east, B4379

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

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: Decker Hill and entrance courtyard to east, B4379

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shifnal
National Grid Reference:: SJ 75145 09695

Details

SJ 70 NE 6/2

SHIFNAL CP B4379 (west side), Decker Hill and entrance courtyard to east

(Formerly listed as Decker Hall)

26/05/55

II House, now Club House. Circa 1810. Stucco with hipped slate roof. Two storeys; first floor cill band, deep frieze, deep eaves cornice with paired brackets, and small ridge stacks off-centre to left and right. Greek Revival style. 2:1:2 bay rhythm; giant order of reeded pilaster strips flanking each pair of outer bays; recessed centre bay with two giant unfluted ashlar Ionic columns in antis. Glazing-bar sashes. Three steps along facade with later flanking lions; five steps to pair of central three-panelled doors with reeded architrave, side lights, and segmental radial fanlight over all. Six-bay left-hand end elevation with blind boxes to ground floor sashes; right-hand end elevation with two storey bow to left and projecting two storey square bay to right with chamfered panelled corners.

INTERIOR: central hall with oval top light, and two-flight dog-leg staircase with open string, wrought iron balustrade with anthemion ornament; panelled doors, and moulded cornices and soffits throughout.

Two storey service block adjoining to west; entrance court to east consisting of low ashlar walls with urns and square gate piers with cornices. Landscaped grounds with temple (qv) and entrance lodges (qv) now golf course.

Listing NGR: SJ7514509695

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Legacy System number:: 255222
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 246
Reid, P, 'Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses' in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, (1980), 86

Legal

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