Crown House
6, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167380
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Crown House
- Statutory Address:
- 6, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167380
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Crown House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- CROWN HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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:
- 6, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- CROWN HOUSE, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alvechurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 02899 72645
Details
SP 02 72 ALVECHURCH CP THE SQUARE (east side)
15/28 Crown House and No 6 (formerly listed as Crown 22.5.73 House)
GV II
House, now veterinary hospital and house. Probably C16, refronted early C18, with mid-C19 and some late C20 alterations. Timber-frame clad in painted brick with machine tile roof. U-plan, probably hall and cross-wings. South-west front: gabled cross-wings at each end with planted C19 framing to gables; two storeys, dentilled brick cornice, band to left cross-wing, 2 + 2 + 2 windows: two to left fixed casements, then a 3-light C20 casement and three 2-light C20 casements; ground floor: 1 + 2 + 1 windows, all fixed casements except the 3-light C20 casement to right; entrances: two between two left-hand windows have wooden architraves and C20 panelled doors; roughly central an entrance with C19 gabled tile canopy and glazed door, similar entrance to right cross-wing approached by three brick steps. There are traces of the positions of earlier windows on the ground floor, evidenced by rubbed brick heads. Framing: exposed in left-hand return wall, close- studded. Interior: in hall range on ground floor is a moulded ceiling beam; there is evidence in the subsidiary beams that the front wall was jettied.
Listing NGR: SP0289772653
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156081
- 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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