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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156133
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 54
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
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.
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