Astley Town House
ASTLEY TOWN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155803
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Astley Town House
- Statutory Address:
- ASTLEY TOWN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155803
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Astley Town House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASTLEY TOWN HOUSE
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:
- ASTLEY TOWN HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Astley and Dunley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 79440 68187
Details
SO 76 NE ASTLEY CP ASTLEY TOWN
3/50 Astley Town House
29.7.59
- II
Former farmhouse. Late C16 - early C17 with later additions. Timber- framed, partially bricked on ground floor; painted brick and lath and plaster infill to panels, tiled roofs. Roughly F-plan with end projecting cross-wing at west; central triple stack and later external stack to main range, external stack to cross-wing; cross-passage behind main stack. Main range of 2 bays with 1 gabled bay, projecting cross-wing of 2 bays. North elevation, 2 storeys and attics in gables; 2 gables one to right of centre and one in projecting cross-wing to right, both containing 2-light leaded casements, irregular fenestration 3 windows to first floor, one in centre housed in small gabled projection with small external stack. Ground floor obscured by later brick lean-to has C20 windows and door. East gable has painted brick ground floor and 3 C19 casements with segmental heads, one 4-light window on first floor. Lean-to at rear. Framing: square panels roughly 2 from mid-rail to eaves, at rear framing largely complete with 2 panels from sill to mid-rail; V-struts in gables. Timber weathering over windows. Interior: remains of former C17 staircase with twisted balusters - from first floor to attic. Large inglenook backing on cross-passage.
Listing NGR: SO7944068187
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152278
- 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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