Arley Cottage
ARLEY COTTAGE, ARLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031899
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Arley Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ARLEY COTTAGE, ARLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031899
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Arley Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARLEY COTTAGE, ARLEY LANE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ARLEY COTTAGE, ARLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wyre Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Upper Arley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 76901 80434
Details
UPPER ARLEY
1805/0/10025 ARLEY LANE
16-AUG-02 (South side)
Arley Cottage
II
House. Timber frame with extensions in mostly rendered brick; gabled plain tile roofs and brick stacks.
PLAN: C16 three-bay house with central bay to NW making overall T-plan; further extensions of later C18 to mid C19 date to NW side and to SE of the C16 house. Service yard attached to NE.
EXTERIOR: Mid C19 Picturesque Gothic style. 2 storeys with attic. NW elevation, facing onto drive, has timber 2-light attic casements above 3-light casements, all small-paned with Gothick heads. Two gables facing to left of gabled porch with plank door, the latter added to front of taller gable end; all gables decorated with cusped bargeboards with finials. SW elevation, facing onto garden, has similar fenestration and two similar gables, including ground-floor French windows, flanked by lower flank walls of the wings that have been added at right angles; late C20 conservatory to right. Rear has small mid C19 brick block with 6/6-pane sash above half-glazed door, added to front of C16 wing with exposed timber frame facing NE: latter has square panelling with C17/18 brick herringbone nogging, mid rail staggered to allow for blocked first-floor window opening. Service yard extends to NE, with rebuilt brick wall to NE side and a long single-storey mid C19 range.
INTERIOR: C16 structure has first-floor chamfered beams, windbrace in NE corner to collar truss roof (mostly obscured) with trenched purlins to NW single-bay extension. High-quality mid C19 joinery (including panelled doors) and plasterwork, in the hall being a stone Tudor style painted fireplace with the Woodward arms. Three marble fireplaces in main ground-floor rooms, which have sliding and folding window shutters. Mid C19 cupboards and plate rack in service rooms, there also being a blocked open kitchen fireplace and a bread oven to the rear.
HISTORY: The remodelling of this house in its well-preserved Picturesque Gothic form took place either around 1844 (when Arley Castle was rebuilt by the second Earl Mountnorrris) or shortly after 1851, when the estate was bought by the Woodward family. It was then used as the dower house for the estate.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489792
- 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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