Roveries Hall
ROVERIES HALL, OWL'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054514
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Roveries Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ROVERIES HALL, OWL'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054514
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Roveries Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROVERIES HALL, OWL'S 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:
- ROVERIES HALL, OWL'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lydham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 32355 92150
Details
SO 39 SW LYDHAM C.P. OWL'S LANE (north side)
2/170 Roveries Hall (formerly listed as The Roveries) 1/12/51 GV II
Shown on O.S. map as Roveries. House. 1810, by John Hiram Haycock for John Oakeley as an enlargement of an earlier house. Stuccoed limestone rubble with hipped slate roofs. Regency villa style. 2 storeys. Plinth, deep eaves and 7 brick ridge stacks. South-west front: 4 bays; glazing bar sashes, tripartite with recessed segmental heads in outer bays on ground floor, and central 2-bay 2-storey bow. South-east front: 3 bays, ground floor to left blank; central pair of half-glazed doors, ashlar porch with unfluted Greek Doric columns and pilasters, and full entablature with lead top. Projecting lower hipped-roofed circa C18 wing to right. Interior: entrance hall with semi-circular end walls and panelled plaster ceiling; double height top-lit staircase hall and dog-leg staircase with stick balusters; fireplace in The Drawing Room with reeded architraves, and doors with reeded architraves. The Panelled Room, ground floor to right at rear: a post-war introduction from a London house. Raised and fielded panelling with dado and moulded cornice; fireplace with lugged architrave, central carved shell panel, flanking carved acanthus, egg and dart enriched cornice; panelled overmantel with eared architrave, shell above and flanking husk garlands; flanking semi-circular arched buffets; 6-panelled door with architrave, and doorcase with acanthus frieze and broken triangular pediment. Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600 - 1840, (John Murray), 1978, P.468; Salop Records Office, Specification and estimate, 1079, Box 13.
Listing NGR: SO3235592150
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257084
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 468
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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