THE DENE

THE DENE, 2, BRACEBRIDGE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067109
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:: THE DENE
Statutory Address:: THE DENE, 2, BRACEBRIDGE ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067109
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:: THE DENE
Statutory Address 1:: THE DENE, 2, BRACEBRIDGE ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE DENE, 2, BRACEBRIDGE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Sutton Coldfield
National Grid Reference:: SP 11613 97655

Details

SPI9NW SUTTON COLDFIELD BRAGEBRIDGE ROAD Four Oaks

2/10003 Number 2, The Dene

II

House. 1895-6. Designed by W.H. Bidlake, built by William Bishop. Red brick laid in English bond to the ground floor generally, tile-hanging to much of the first floor, structural timber-framing to the rest of the first floor, roof of clay tiles. There is a principal range running roughly east-west, a cross-wing at the east end of the south front, and a cross-wing at the east and west ends of the north front. Two storeys and attic. Scattered fenestration; all windows are flat-arched with wooden frames, casements and leaded lights. Two-storey porch in the angle of the principal range and southern cross-wing: round-arched entrance to inner porch with double doors, leading at right angles to the flat-arched front door; the porch has a two-light window at the first floor, a parapet and, within the parapet, a tiny pitched roof which is timber-framed and surmounted by a ball finial. The principal range has a shallow, bracketed canted oriel on the ground floor, tucked under the jettying of the first floor; the southern cross-wing has another bracketed and canted oriel of five-lights, the timber-framed upper-storey being jettied and bracketed, the west front has a five-sided, single-storey canted bay window under a hipped roof and an external stack with breaks through the point of junction between gable and caves; on the north front, the western cross-wing is blank apart from a small attic window and there is a small, gabled staircase wing with timber-framing to the upper storey in the angle of the principal range and the eastern cross-wing; the latter is a service wing, without tile-hanging on the upper storey, and with a single-storey gabled extension at north end, the door on the west side of this wing and the window at the north end are of c.1991; the cast front has an external stack and some timber-framing to the first-floor; side- and ridge-stacks, the upper part of the stacks square and set lozengewise and now slightly lowered. INTERIOR: generally retains original architraves and three-panelled doors; fireplace in hall with rounded brick arch and original copper firehood, and fixed settle to left of hearth; screen to staircase which is carried up in two flights under a round arch with square newel and balusters of oak to the upper flight; the dining room has a four-centred brick-arched fireplace under a raised mantel; the drawing room has a fireplace recess with flanking benches and a simple Classical chimneypiece; the morning room has an original fireplace with double shelf to the corner; the kitchen area has been altered in plan.

Listing NGR: SP1161397655

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Legacy System number:: 473074
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.