The Big House
THE BIG HOUSE, 44, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077139
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Big House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BIG HOUSE, 44, CHURCH STREET
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- 1999-08-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/01340/12
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077139
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Big House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BIG HOUSE, 44, CHURCH STREET
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 BIG HOUSE, 44, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 98998 89711
Details
SANDWELL MB CHURCH STREET (west side) SO 9889 NE SO 9989 NW Oldbury 15/67 No 44 (The Big House) 16/67 18.1.50 GV II*
House, now offices. Early C18. Brick in Flemish bond with painted stone dressings and hipped slate roof. Double-depth plan. A symmetrical composition of three storeys and five bays with chamfered quoins. Windows are boxed sashes with glazing bars and stone lintels with keystones. Band above each storey, and moulded eaves cornice. Door of eight raised and fielded panels with panelled reveals. Timber doorcase of reeded engaged columns and swan-necked pediment, the latter closed at the top by an additional open triangular pediment. Within the pediment is painted: "AD 1705". At the rear some windows have elliptical brick arches. Interior: the principal ground floor rooms each have an exposed ceiling beam. The right hand front room has an inglenook fireplace with re-used timber bressummer and panelled jambs, now containing a cast iron hob grate with Adamesque decoration. The open-well stair has an open string, three turned balusters to each tread, and a ramped and wreathed handrail. The interior doors are mostly of raised and fielded panels. On the second floor are two panelled doors of c1700.
Listing NGR: SO9899889711
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219276
- 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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