Chirbury Hall
CHIRBURY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055052
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chirbury Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CHIRBURY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055052
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chirbury Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHIRBURY HALL
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:
- CHIRBURY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chirbury with Brompton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 26162 98585
Details
CHIRBURY C.P. CHIRBURY SO 29 NE
8/53 Chirbury Hall -
GV II
Farmhouse. 1736 remodelling of earlier building with C19 additions and alterations. Uncoursed limestone rubble with angle quoins and red brick dressings; slate roof has coped verges on kneelers and finials to gable ends. Main block of 4 bays with C19 L-shaped service range to right. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window front, late C19 casements to first floor and C20 sash windows to ground floor, all with segmental brick heads, C20 French window to left, 4 late C19 gabled dormers in bottom of roof slope; entrance between third and fourth windows from left, late C19 gabled timber porch with contemporary half-glazed inner door; axial red brick ridge stack immediately to left of entrance with subsidiary ridge stack between first and second windows from left. Datestone "RAP/HERES/E 1736 M" to left gable end. Interior: partly infilled inglenook fireplace to right ground-floor room has massive carved wooden lintel with quatrefoil patterns, rose motifs and crudely carved human figures, 2 of whom are carrying an unidentifiable object, probably late C16 or C17 but possibly monastic in origin; a medieval piscina bowl is re-set vertically in the window jamb; main ground-floor room has 2 chamfered cross beams with stepped stops and panelling in corner where door gives access to cellar; rectangular oak panelling to left ground-floor room, some in situ but that to gable wall formerly under chamfered spine beam forming partition; further C17 panelling (not in original position) forms overmantel to fireplace, the decorative carving including the round-headed arch motif; early C18 staircase to back wall has rather stumpy turned balusters on first floor and there are similar balusters to attic staircase; main feature of first floor is the panelling running full length of corridor, rectangular panels with simple moulding to top, a motif repeated on door to left end room; cross walls said to be timber framed but concealed by plaster and wallpaper at time of resurvey (October 1985). In the garden are a large number of medieval worked stones (not included in this list) from the former Chirbury Priory, including several pieces of window tracery, which may have been removed from the Church of St. Michael (q.v.) during the restoration of 1871-2.
Listing NGR: SO2616298585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257378
- 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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