Grafton House
GRAFTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055134
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grafton House
- Statutory Address:
- GRAFTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055134
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grafton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAFTON HOUSE
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:
- GRAFTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bomere Heath and District
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 43104 19012
Details
BOMERE HEATH C.P. GRAFTON SJ 41 NW 5/90 Grafton House - - II
Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid-C17, enlarged in the early C18. C19 addition at rear. Timber framed with red brick nogging, extended in red brick. C20 asbestos slate roofs. Framing: small square panels (5 from sole plate to wall plate) with long straight tension braces. Two framed bays with L-plan C18 addition to south. Two storeys and gable- lit attic. C18 south block: toothed brick eaves cornice and external brick end stacks with toothed-brick caps. 2 bays; segmental-headed glazing bar sashes with stone cills (refenestrated from 4 bays - see blocked windows). C20 lean-to conservatory and one-storey brick block to left. Right-hand gable end with ground-floor segmental-headed boxed glazing bar sash to right, early C19 wooden cross window to first floor with segmental relieving arch, and 2-light leaded wooden attic casement. Left-hand gable end with first-floor imitation glazing bar sash and 2-light attic casement. Two-storey wing at rear. East front has first-floor leaded wooden cross window with segmental relieving arch and C18 door with 6 raised and fielded panels (top 2 glazed), 2-part leaded rectangular overlight, pegged oak frame with double-quirked beaded corners, and flat hood on shaped brackets. Boarded door to west. C17 north block: jettied gables with ovolo-moulded and stopped tie-beams and carved scrolled end brackets, trusses with 2 collars and queen struts, and large central brick ridge stack consisting of 4 square shafts. Gable ends with C20 two-light wooden attic casements and ground- and first-floor 3-light wooden casements. C20 French casements to west. C19 two-storey brick wing to rear with external brick end stack. Interior: C17 wing has pairs of chamfered ceiling beams with ogee stops,and open fireplace in right-hand ground-floor room has chamfered wooden lintel with ogee stops. Circa 1700 square-well oak staircase in central link block, rising to attic, with closed string, turned balusters, moulded handrail, square newel posts with moulded caps and turned baluster-shaped foot newel. Circa 1700 two-panelled ground-floor door with L-hinges. Reused C17 panelling in C19 rear wing, with carving and fluting, and inscribed "TE. DOMINE.SPERAVI./TA VA", possibly removed from elsewhere in the house or brought in, perhaps from a church.
Listing NGR: SJ4310419012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259152
- 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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