1 Church Row

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

OVERBURY CP CHURCH ROW (south side) SO 9437 - 9537 9/135 No 1 GV II

Lodge to Overbury Court, now house. C18 or earlier origins, rebuilt and extended 1877-8 by Richard Norman Shaw for Robert Martin and further extended in c1940. Coursed limestone rubble and some decorative timber-framing with roughcast infill; plain tiled roof with gable-end parapets and ashlar ridge end stacks. Two storeys and attic with dormers; first floor of north front elevation is jettied on a moulded bressummer with close-set studding and a swept brace in the left lower corner. Three bays. Windows all have leaded casements. Ground floor has a 3-light, a 2-light and a 5-light chamfered stone mullioned window. On the first floor is a 4-light, a 3-light and a 5-light window-and there are two gabled dormers with moulded bargeboards and 4-light windows. At the west end is a single-storey hipped roofed addition which has a chamfered plinth and, in its north side, a doorway with moulded jambs and cambered head, a door with strap hinges, and a 2-light and a 4-light window at its west end. Its west side elevation faces the Church of St Faith (qv) and has two first floor windows of three lights and two lights and a lean-to porch on shaped brackets above a door with flanking leaded lights which now forms the main entrance. A c1940 single-storey wing adjoins to the south. Interior retains its c1877-8 slate and cast iron fireplaces. (Saint, A: Richard Norman Shaw, london, 1976).

Listing NGR: SO9574837428

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0914 IOE Records taken by Peter Harnwell; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Peter Harnwell. Source: Historic England Archive

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