COFTON HALL

COFTON HALL, COFTON CHURCH LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1167600
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: COFTON HALL
Statutory Address:: COFTON HALL, COFTON CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1167600
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: COFTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: COFTON HALL, COFTON CHURCH LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: COFTON HALL, COFTON CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Bromsgrove (District Authority)
Parish:: Cofton Hackett
National Grid Reference:: SP 01015 75022

Details

SP 07 NW COFTON HACKETT CP COFTON CHURCH LANE (south side)

2/82 Cofton Hall

23.4.52

- II*

Country house. C15, remodelled early C18 and c1796, the latter probably by George Byfield for Robert Biddulph, with late C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Timber-frame clad in ashlar and stuccoed brick with tile roofs. South-east front: to right the medieval hall of one storey with two levels of windows, each of two 2-light casements, this face restored mid-C20; later house to right early C18, remodelled late C18, of three storeys with hipped tile roof; parapet with moulded cornice, band to ground floor and sill band to first floor; six windows (probably seven originally): glazing bar sashes, second floor: 9-pane sashes; ground floor: tall glazing bar sashes, French casement to left-hand corner, entrance to right of centre has portico of two Doric columns with moulded cornice. Interior: hall has an eight-bay hammer-beam roof, walls originally timber-framed, roof has arch-braces from hammer-beam to collar with pentagonal bosses on collar, space above filled with pierced tracery; brackets from wall-posts to hammer-beams are cusped with shields at base. The unexecuted designs by George Byfield include "Principal Front of Cofton Hall in the Present State". (BoE, p 123; VCH 3, p 54; Peter Reid, [Burke's and Savill's Guide to Country Houses, Volume II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, 1980, p 198; Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 1978; Hereford and Worcester Record Office BA 1635, unexecuted designs for George Byfield, signed 1796).

Listing NGR: SP0101575022

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 156133
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 54
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 123
Reid, P, 'Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses' in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, , Vol. 2, (1980), 198

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.