THE COACH HOUSE AND ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS

THE COACH HOUSE AND ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS, CLAYPIT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366509
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: THE COACH HOUSE AND ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS
Statutory Address:: THE COACH HOUSE AND ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS, CLAYPIT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366509
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: THE COACH HOUSE AND ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: THE COACH HOUSE AND ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS, CLAYPIT STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE COACH HOUSE AND ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS, CLAYPIT STREET

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whitchurch Urban
National Grid Reference:: SJ 54167 42011

Details

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. CLAYPIT STREET (north-west SJ 54 SW and SJ 5441 side) 1/50 and 7/50 The Coach House and 11.6.73 adjoining forecourt walls (formerly listed as The Coach House at the Old Rectory, London Road) GV II

Stable block and coach house, now house. Circa 1749, restored in the late C20. Red brick with hipped plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic. Plinth, plat band (with raised top course) , C20 boxed eaves, and integral brick end stacks. South-east front: 3:1:3 bays; segmental headed 2-light wooden casements (replaced in C20), cross windows to ground floor. Doorway in second bay from right. Pair of elliptical-arched coach-house doorways to left, which each have a pair of large boarded doors with strap hinges. Central gabled break with oculus in apex and elliptical-arched carriageway with raised brick keystone. Pair of cast-iron gates with spearhead railings and red sandstone hinge blocks. Evidence of former stone shield on wall above arch (see disturbed brickwork). Forecourt walls flanking central entrance. Red brick with stone coping. Each wall turns through 90 with canted corners,to form enclosures to left and right. Square piers with pyramidal caps, those flanking entrance with C18 wrought-iron lamp standards. Pair of boarded gates to left, with flanking gate piers. Rear: 3:1:3 bays; segmental-headed 2-light wooden casements (replaced in C20), cross windows to ground floor. Boarded doors in second and sixth bays with 2-part segmental-headed overlights. Central gabled break with oculus in apex and elliptical-arched carriageway with raised brick keystone. This was formerly the stable block and coach house to The Old Rectory (q.v.). Both the house and stable block stand within a moated site.

Listing NGR: SJ5416642010

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Legacy System number:: 260604
Legacy System:: LBS

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