Wattlesborough Hall
WATTLESBOROUGH HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055239
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wattlesborough Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WATTLESBOROUGH HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055239
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wattlesborough Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATTLESBOROUGH 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:
- WATTLESBOROUGH HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alberbury with Cardeston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 35517 12612
Details
SJ 31 SE ALBERBURY WITH - CARDESTON C.P. 5/5 Wattlesborough Hall
29.1.52
GV II
Farmhouse. Soon after c.1711. Roughly squared and coursed red and grey sandstone with red sandstone dressings; rendered left-hand gable end; graded slate roof. 2 storeys. Plinth, moulded stone eaves cornice, and parapeted gable end to left with stone coping and moulded kneelers; integral brick end stack to left. 5 bays; C19 wooden cross-windows with triple- keyed lintels; central C20 glazed door with heavy rusticated surround and 5-keyed lintel. Right-hand ground-floor window is probably a former doorway (see straight joints and brickwork below cill). 3 windows at rear; raised central first-floor staircase window and blocked stone cross-window off-centre to right. C20 brown brick one-storey addition at rear. Interior: C18 three-flight staircase with winders, rising to attic: closed string, turned balusters, moulded handrail and beaded square bottom newel post. The house was built adjoining the remains of Wattlesborough Castle (qv) and both were occupied as one dwelling until the late C19. There is an engraving in the farmhouse showing the castle with a probably medieval wing on the site of the present C18 building so the latter probably incorporates reused materials and might even be a thorough remodelling. County A.M. No 126. V.C.H., vol VIII, pp, 197-8; B.O.E., pp. 33-4; D.F. Renn, Norman Castles in Britain (1971), p.341.
Listing NGR: SJ3551712612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258910
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Renn, D F, Norman Castles in Britain, (1971), 341
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 197-8
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 33-4
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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