1 and 2 Park Cottages

1 and 2, Park Cottages, Main Road, Ombersley, WR9 0EP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081107
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1952
List Entry Name:: 1 and 2 Park Cottages
Statutory Address:: 1 and 2, Park Cottages, Main Road, Ombersley, WR9 0EP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081107
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: 1 and 2 Park Cottages
Statutory Address 1:: 1 and 2, Park Cottages, Main Road, Ombersley, WR9 0EP

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:: 1 and 2, Park Cottages, Main Road, Ombersley, WR9 0EP

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Ombersley
National Grid Reference:: SO 84514 63387

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 March 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SO 8463 9/202

OMBERSLEY CP MAIN ROAD Park Cottages Nos 1 and 2

(Formerly listed as WORCESTER ROAD (west side) Nos 1 and 2 Park Cottages, previously listed as Park Villas)

29.12.52

GV II

Pair of cottages. C17; rebuilt 1841 on present site. Timber-framed, painted brick infill, plain tiled roof with bands of fishscale tiles, moulded finials at gable ends, two external brick chimneys at rear, one with four and one with two diagonal stacks with oversailing cap courses and one cogged cap course. Three framed bays with gable end entrances and single-bay wings to rear end bays; single storey and attic with dormers.

Framing: irregular, mainly four panels from sill to wall-plate, the top row having decorative alternate cross and diaper patterns, gable end collar-and-tie-beam trusses with V-struts in apex; right end bay is jettied to the front elevation on shaped brackets.

Front elevation: ground floor has three oriel windows on carved brackets, each with two splayed mullions and transom and tiled weathering and moulded architraves; the left and central bay has a gabled dormer with two-light casement and the right gabled jettied end has a three-light casement with the restoration date "1841" in the apex. Each gable end has a gabled timber-framed and balustraded porch, and a ledged and battened door with a moulded architrave and an attic light.

Interior not inspected.

The cottages originally stood in Pewterer's Alley, Wribbenhall, Bewdley and were moved to their present site in 1841.

Listing NGR: SO8451463387

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Legacy System number:: 148098
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.