Moor Hall Farmhouse
MOOR HALL FARMHOUSE, 29, MOOR HALL DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075803
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Moor Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MOOR HALL FARMHOUSE, 29, MOOR HALL DRIVE
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- Date:
- 1999-10-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/01314/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075803
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Moor Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOOR HALL FARMHOUSE, 29, MOOR HALL DRIVE
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:
- MOOR HALL FARMHOUSE, 29, MOOR HALL DRIVE
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 12514 98117
Details
1. 5104 MOOR HALL DRIVE
No 29 (Moor Hall Farmhouse) SP 19 NW 2/29 18.10.49. II*
2. C15 or late C14. Sandstone ashlar, old tiled roof with 2 gabled dormers, stone coped gables to side elevations. 2 storeys and attics, 3 stone mullioned lattice casement late C18 windows, each with 2 pointed arched lights. 1st floor small C15 lancet window. Segmental chamfered doorway arch. Lower wing on left, late medieval, has 1 gabled dormer, 1st floor C18 double pointed arched light window, ground floor pair of C15 lancets and 1 single light pointed arched window. Wide chamfered segmental arch to doorway on right. Modern garage door on left. Back has semi-octagonal staircase bay. Interior said to retain original timbers. See VCH, IV, p 231 and Chatwin and Harcourt, The Bisop Vesey Houses pp 8-9. Conjectural birthplace, circa 1462, of John Vesey, Bishop of Exeter, founder of the Borough of Sutton Coldfield.
Listing NGR: SP1251498117
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216611
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 231
Chatwin, P B, Harcourt, E G, The Bishop Vesey Houses, (1942), 8-9
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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