Shakenhurst
SHAKENHURST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081469
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Shakenhurst
- Statutory Address:
- SHAKENHURST
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01881/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081469
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Shakenhurst
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHAKENHURST
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:
- SHAKENHURST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bayton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 67282 72970
Details
BAYTON CP - SO 67 SE
2/4 Shakenhurst
18.4.66
- II*
Country house in landscaped park. C17, remodelled 1798. Red brick with plain tiled roof behind parapet and massive brick end and ridge stacks. Three storeys with modillion eaves cornice to front elevation and dentilled eaves cornice at sides and rear. 1:3:1 bays; outer bays break forward and have full-height central bay windows; all windows have gauged flat heads, large keyblocks and stone sills; 15-pane sashes on ground floor, 12-pane sashes on first floor and 6-pane sashes on second floor; central porch has an open pediment on Ionic columns and half-glazed double doors. Interior: main rooms have moulded cornices and doorheads; hall occupies central three bays of ground floor and has a large stone fireplace with Corinthian columns and urn relief; C17 dog-leg oak staircase with three turned balusters per tread; C17 linenfold panelling with fishscale detail retained to rear ground floor similar to that of the choir stalls in the Church of St Bartholomew (qv). The house was the seat of the Wigley family. (BoE, p 76).
Listing NGR: SO6728272970
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149197
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 76
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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