Bretforton Grange
BRETFORTON GRANGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081603
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Bretforton Grange
- Statutory Address:
- BRETFORTON GRANGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081603
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Bretforton Grange
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRETFORTON GRANGE
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:
- BRETFORTON GRANGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bretforton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 08630 44176
Details
BRETFORTON CP - SP 0844 - SP 0944
13/21 Bretforton Grange
30.7.59 GV II*
Shown on OS map as Grange Farm. Monastic grange, now house. Early C14, remodelled and extended 1635, with some late C20 alterations. Coursed lias rubble with ashlar dressings, Cotswold stone and tile roof. C14 range aligned north/south, subsidiary (service) range extending west from southern corner has stacks at both ends; C17 wing projects to south from latter range with central stack. East front: C14 range to right of two storeys with gable-lit attic, stone coped verges and stepped buttresses. External staircase of C20 to right-hand side; to left; two 3-light C17 stone mullioned windows. C17 wing set back to left with stair turret in angle, two storeys high, 2-light window to first floor; entrance to right has a C20 stone gabled porch. To left-hand corner an entrance (now window) with triangular head, and a square label, the stops of which bear the inscription "WC 1635". Interior: C17 staircase with massive turned balusters and moulded handrail. Roof of C14 range is of common rafter construction, each couple having an arch-braced collar and vertical ashlar pieces. Ground floor of this range is an early C14 undercroft divided into four bays by simple chamfered ribs. (Bond, C J: "The Estates of Evesham Abbey: a preliminary survey of their medieval topography", Vale of Evesham Historical Society Research Papers, Vol 4, 1973, pp 10-11; VCH, 2, pp 359-360; BoE, p 100).
Listing NGR: SP0863044176
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148623
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1906), 359-360
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 100
Vale of Evesham Historical Society Research Papers in Vale of Evesham Historical Society Research Papers, Vol. 4, (1973), 10-11
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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