Court House
COURT HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081640
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address:
- COURT HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081640
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT HOUSE, MAIN 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:
- COURT HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Beckford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 97563 35838
Details
BECKFORD CP MAIN STREET (off north side) SO 9635 - 9735 13/54 12/3 Court House 30-7-59 GV II
House. C17 with early and mid-C19 alterations and additions. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, also some timber-framing with rendered infill. Machine-tiled roofs with gable-end parapets to stone part and large brick stacks at each end and to rear of central ridge. Main range of four bays aligned north/south with intersecting service cross-wing of two framed bays at north end; the chimney at the north end is external, with offsets and a tall rebuilt ashlar stack. Two storeys and attic with chamfered plinth. Framing: cross-wing has two rows of square panels at first floor level, short straight braces across the upper corners and collar and tie-beam roof trusses, the east front truss having three struts to collar and a V-strut in the apex. East front elevation: main range has gabled above the first and third bays. Windows all have hoodmoulds (except for the window in the fourth bay) and are mainly C20 casements. The first bay has a 4-light chamfered mullioned window on the ground floor, and the third bay has a tripartite sash window with a central 12-pane sash and outer 8-pane sashes on the ground floor. Both bays have 3-light first floor chamfered mullioned windows and similar 2-light attic windows. There is also a similar 2-light window on the first floor of the second bay and there is a 3-light casement on the first floor of the fourth bay. Beneath this window is a blocked doorway. The main entrance in the second bay has a hoodmould, a C19 door with pointed-arched panels and a narrow transom light with five glazing bars. The service wing gable end has a 3-light window, on both main floors and a 3-light ground floor window and a 2-light first floor window in the angle with the main ridge. There is a C19 lean-to outshut enclosing the external chimney and also a single-storey C19 kitchen wing to the north side elevation.
Listing NGR: SO9756335838
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148506
- 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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