THE NECESSARY HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231034
Date first listed:: 29-May-1985
List Entry Name:: THE NECESSARY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE NECESSARY HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231034
Date first listed:: 29-May-1985
List Entry Name:: THE NECESSARY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE NECESSARY HOUSE

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

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:: THE NECESSARY HOUSE

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: East Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Okeover
National Grid Reference:: SK 15653 48124

Details

SK 14 NE OKEOVER C.P. OKEOVER PARK

3/134 The Necessary House

GV II

Former privy now summerhouse. Mid-C18. By Joseph Sanderson for Leak Okeover. Rendered with ashlar plinth and dressings. Classical garden feature. Moulded open pediment and tripartite arrangement of arched openings, the outer ones as windows, the centre one is entrance with shallow rusticated dressings and voussoirs. Interior plastered. 2 stone privys flank the entrance. Sanderson's drawing for the building survives and "The drawing of the Necessary House" is mentioned in a letter from Sanderson dated November 22nd 1746. C.L. Vol. 135 (1964).

Listing NGR: SK1565348124

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 406061
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 135, (1964)

Legal

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