Holy Cross House
HOLY CROSS HOUSE, CHURCH AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166991
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Cross House
- Statutory Address:
- HOLY CROSS HOUSE, CHURCH AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166991
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Cross House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLY CROSS HOUSE, CHURCH AVENUE
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:
- HOLY CROSS HOUSE, CHURCH AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clent
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 92346 78843
Details
SO 97 NW CLENT CP CHURCH AVENUE (east side) Holy Cross
6/62 Holy Cross House 8.5.81
GV II
House. c1800 with late C20 alterations and additions. Finely jointed red brick with shallow-pitched slate roof, gable-end parapets and end stacks. Three storeys with moulded eaves cornice to front, cogged eaves cornice to rear. Three bays; windows have gauged flat heads with moulded keyblocks and stone sills; ground and first floor windows are 16-pane sashes; seocnd floor windows are 2-light casements. Central entrance has a C2.0 surround with pediment, pilasters and entablature, panelled reveals and a 6-panelled door, the upper two panels of which are glazed. There is a contemporary rear two-storey wing, parallel to the main range, at the centre of which is the present main entrance with porch and doorcase in Georgian style. The house stands in a prominent position at the junction of five streets.
Listing NGR: SO9234678843
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156327
- 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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