The Principal's House
THE PRINCIPAL'S HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055568
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Principal's House
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRINCIPAL'S HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055568
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Principal's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRINCIPAL'S 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:
- THE PRINCIPAL'S HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Acton Burnell
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 53253 01996
Details
ACTON BURNELL C.P., ACTON BURNELL,
SJ 50 SW,
6/6
The Principal's House
(formerly listed as The Old Rectory)
GV
II
Rectory, now house. Dated 1714 with early C19 alterations. Red brick on red
and grey sandstone rubble plinth; slate roofs. L-plan. Two storeys and gable-
lit attic. Plat band to right-hand part, and parapeted gables with returned
stone copings; large brick ridge stack off-centre to left and integral brick
end stack to right. Right-hand part of 4 bays; glazing bar sashes with exposed
boxes, two ground-floor windows to right have been altered (see straight joints)
probably in the late C18 or early C19 to form a segmental-headed tripartite
glazing bar sash with red sandstone keystone; 4-panelled door in second bay
from left with panelled reveals and moulded architrave, and mid-C19 painted brick
porch with panels flanking round arch, and moulded cornice to blocking course.
Gabled wing projecting at right-angles to left, altered in early C19 (see
straight joint); segmental-headed attic glazing bar sash with exposed box, and
possibly late C19 or early C20 2-storey canted bay on brick plinth with
channelled rusticated bottom panels, and wooden dentil eaves cornice to flat
top; glazing bar sashes with moulded architraves, lugged on first floor to
centre and on ground floor to sides, and that in centre on ground floor with
section of moulded cornice above; horned tripartite glazing bar sash in right-
hand return front. Date stone in right-hand gable end: "PS/1714". Interior:
early C19 staircase with stick balusters and moulded wreathed handrail with
columnular newel.
Listing NGR: SJ5325301996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259658
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 35 Shropshire,
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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