Colton House
COLTON HOUSE, BELLAMOUR WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1038774
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Colton House
- Statutory Address:
- COLTON HOUSE, BELLAMOUR WAY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1038774
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Colton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLTON HOUSE, BELLAMOUR WAY
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:
- COLTON HOUSE, BELLAMOUR WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 04910 20464
Details
COLTON C.P. Bellamour Way (south SK 02 SW side)
1/20 Colton House and attached walls and 9.3.53 piers
- II*
House, walls and piers. Circa 1730. Red brick (Flemish bond) and painted plaster dressings; hipped plain tile roofs; brick ridge stacks. Main block of 2 storeys and attic and slightly lower 2 storey flanking wings; rusticated quoins and coved eaves. 2:5:2 window front; 12- pane sashes with moulded sills, exposed sash boxes and shaped plaster lintels with raised keys; central first floor window has a moulded plaster surround. 3 inserted attic dormers with flat roofs. A flight of steps leads up to a central 6-panel door with Doric pilasters, open pediment and fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Attached to each side of the house is a stone coped brick wall which sweeps forward to terminate in a square pier with ball finial. To the rear is a full height bow window of circa 1800 with tripartite stone mullioned windows containing glazing bar sashes. Interior. Entrance hall with plaster cornice and a 3-centred archway which gives access to an open-well staircase with open string and carved tread ends, barley sugar twist balusters incorporating square knots, a ramped and wreathed handrail, and a panelled oak dado. Front room to ground floor left has oak wall panelling of more than one date with a cyma recta moulded cornice and C18 panelled window shutters. Front room to first floor left has a C18 polished limestone fireplace with wooden egg and dart moulded surround and a cast iron grate; plaster dentilled cornice. Front room to first floor right has an C18 polished limestone fireplace with lugged surround and cast iron grate. The rear rooms which were extended by the addition of the bow window have C19 decorative plaster ceilings.
Listing NGR: SK0491020464
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 272866
- 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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