Bark Hill House
BARK HILL HOUSE, BARK HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056002
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bark Hill House
- Statutory Address:
- BARK HILL HOUSE, BARK HILL
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/07945/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056002
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bark Hill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARK HILL HOUSE, BARK HILL
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:
- BARK HILL HOUSE, BARK HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch Urban
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5417341249
Details
SJ 5441
8/36
1.5.51
WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P.
BARK HILL (south-east side)
No. 28 (Bark Hill House)
II
House. Circa 1680-1700, remodelled in the early to mid-C19. Rendered
timber frame. Plain tile roof. 3 framed bays; central staircase plan.
2 storeys and attic. Rendered plinth, and wooden fascia with moulded
gutter. Integral rendered brick end stacks. 3 gabled dormers with
leaded wooden casements, two to right 2-light and one to left 3-light.
3 bays; C19 two- and 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed casements
with chamfered cills and concave hoods. Central 6 panelled door (lower
2 panels beaded flush) with central beading, reeded impost band, 2-part
rectangular overlight with geometrical-pattern glazing bars, reeded
architrave, and porch with attenuated cast-iron barleysugar columns, tall
thin reeded pilaster strips to wall and shallow gabled top. Cast-iron
bootscraper to left. Rendered early to mid-C19 two-storey rear wing with
boxed 16-pane glazing bar sashes and integral lateral brick stack.
Interior: many fixtures and fittings of c.1700. Entrance hall with
moulded plaster cornice. Oak dog-leg staircase of c.1700 with winders
and half-landings, closed string, unusual double-twisted (pierced barley-
sugar) balusters, moulded handrail, and square newel posts with moulded
caps. Ground-floor right-hand rear room: late C17-c,1700 oak panelling with
fluted frieze and moulded cornice. C17 corner fireplace with mid-C19
surround and three c.1700 bolection-moulded panels above. Right-hand rear
bedroom has c.1700 fireplace with lugged architrave, frieze and moulded
cornice, and late C18 cast-iron grate. Roof with collar and tie-beam
trusses. Late C17 panelled door with L-hinges to left-hand front
bedroom. Ground floor 6-panelled doors with moulded architraves. The
facade was probably formerly of 5 bays (see beam ending above front window in
right-hand ground floor room) and probably refenestrated when it was
remodelled in the early to mid-C19. This is a particularly interesting
example of a late use of timber framing, in a house which in all other
respects (except perhaps for the staircase) is typical of its date. No.
28 Dodington (q.v.) is another example of late timber framing and both
buildings may be the work of the same builder.
Listing NGR: SJ5417341249
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260588
- 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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