Pool Cottage
POOL COTTAGE, MORETONWOOD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056060
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Pool Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- POOL COTTAGE, MORETONWOOD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056060
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Pool Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- POOL COTTAGE, MORETONWOOD
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:
- POOL COTTAGE, MORETONWOOD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Moreton Say
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 61748 36452
Details
SJ 63 NW MORETON SAY C.P. MORETONWOOD
5/112 Pool Cottage GV II
Shown on O.S. map as Pool House. Estate lodge. Dated 1872, probably by William Eden Nesfield. Timber framed with plastered infill panels on red brick plinth, and brick painted in imitation of framing. Fishscale tile-hung gables and fishscale tile roof, hipped to south-east. Irregular T-plan. One storey and attic. South-west (garden) front: chamfered plinth and coved eaves. Roof with lead rolls and globe finials at apex of hip and gables. Brick ridge stack at junction of 2 ranges and external lateral brick stack to rear , each consisting of a pair of star-shaped shafts with oversailing tops. Left-hand gabled wing has ground-floor canted bay with 2-:3-: 2-light wooden mullioned and transomed window,jettied attic with roll-moulded bressumer and end brackets, attic oriel consisting of 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed window with hipped roof and coved base with shaped end brackets, and jettied gable with a series of small brackets supporting a roll-moulded tie-beam and wall plates with shaped ends. Lower bressumer dated: "JP & AM / 1872". Right-hand range with small 2-light attic casement beneath eaves to left and ground-floor 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed window to right. Boarded door in angle of wing to left with roll-moulded surround and lean-to timber framed porch consisting of polygonal-arched entrance, chamfered arched braces with carved spandrels, carved bracket supporting wall plate to right and 4 ogee-headed side lights. 2 seats within. Right-hand gable end: full-height gabled square bay with 1-:4-:1- light mullioned and transomed ground-floor window, slightly jettied attic storey with roll-moulded bressumer and small brackets, 4-light mullioned and transomed attic window and shaped brackets supporting wall plates. Left-hand return front: ground-floor 3-light wooden casement to left and eaves dormer with bracketed gable and 3-light wooden casement. Boarded back door at rear with moulded surround and rectangular overlight. Interior not inspected. Nesfield designed Cloverley Hall (see Ightfield C.P.) nearby, built in 1864-70 but now demolished. This lodge and The Haven (q.v.) are attributed to him on stylistic grounds. B.o.E., p. 107; Jill Franklin, The Gentleman's Country House and its Plan 1835- 1914, p. 211.
Listing NGR: SJ6174836452
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260417
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Franklin, J, The Gentlemans Country House and its Plan 1835-1914, (1981), 211
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 107
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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