Darkes House
DARKES HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167438
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Darkes House
- Statutory Address:
- DARKES HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167438
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Darkes House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DARKES 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:
- DARKES HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Conderton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 96426 37082
Details
CONDERTON CP - SO 9637 - 9737 10/62 Darkes House - II
House. Circa 1908, by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Stone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses, half-hipped at east end with overhanging eaves; and large ashlar ridge stack with moulded capping and also large stack at east end with three connected square shafts. L-plan. Single storey and attic with half-dormers. Windows are all leaded casements. North front elevation: ground floor has two 3-light windows with flat arches and large keyblocks and also a narrow single-light window. To right of centre there is a gabled half-dormer with moulded bargeboards, decorative applied timber in gable with roughcast infill panels and a 2-light window. Beneath the eaves to the left of the dormer is a circular stair window. The main entrance beneath the half- dormer has a cambered moulded canopy on shaped brackets and a partly glazed door. The date "AD 1908" is inscribed on the upper right corner of the front elevation. A hipped-roofed single-storey wash-house adjoins the east end which has a single-light window in its north front elevation. To the rear of the eastern bay of the main part is a substantial wing. (Newton, W G: The Life and Works of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).
Listing NGR: SO9642637082
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148514
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newton, W, The Work of Ernest Newton RA, (1925)
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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