Cresswells

CRESSWELLS, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1081158
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1952
List Entry Name:
Cresswells
Statutory Address:
CRESSWELLS, MAIN ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1081158
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1952
List Entry Name:
Cresswells
Statutory Address 1:
CRESSWELLS, MAIN ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CRESSWELLS, MAIN ROAD

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 84471 63714

Details

SO 8463 OMBERSLEY CP MAIN ROAD (west side)

9/127 Cresswells

29.12.52 GV II

House. Early C15, with mid-C19 and late C20 alterations. Timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill, sandstone rubble and brick base, plain tiled roof, external brick stack at right gable end with paired star-shaped shafts, small spiral stack at rear left of ridge and rear external chimney with two diagonal brick shafts. Cruck hall house plan of two-bay hall with solar and service bay each end; two storeys and attic. Framing: cruck-framed, full cruck exposed in right gable end and upper sections of blades survive in left gable end; wall-frame altered in C19 and has four square panels from sill to wall-plate, the left gable end having decorative diaper panels. Front elevation: regular arrangement, ground and first floors have two 16-pane sashes with moulded architraves and a central 3-light casement; entrance in original through- passage position, gabled timber-framed balustered porch and C20 plank and battened door. Left gable end has a C19 oriel window with leaded lights on a shaped bracket and an attic light above. Interior: intermediate full cruck frames intact; stop-chamfered main beams. A single storey C19 wing adjoins to rear left. An upper panel of the front right bay has a Norwich Union fire insurance mark.

Listing NGR: SO8447163714

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
148022
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.

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