Wolverley House
WOLVERLEY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1172767
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wolverley House
- Statutory Address:
- WOLVERLEY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1172767
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wolverley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOLVERLEY 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:
- WOLVERLEY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wyre Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolverley and Cookley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 83017 79619
Details
WOLVERLEY & COOKLEY CP WOLVERLEY SO 87 NW 6/149 Wolverley House 20.10.52 GV II* Shown on OS as Knight House. Country house, now flats. Mid-C18 with some mid-C20 extensions and late C20 alterations. Brick with stone dressings and tile roof. Entrance (west) front: three storeys, brick coped parapet, modillioned stone cornice, stone coped verges, ashlar quoins. Seven windows: 15-pane sashes under rubbed brick heads with keystones and stone sills. Second floor with 6-pane sashes. Central entrance has stone doorcase with engaged Droic columns and pediment. A contemporary service wing to left extended forwards in mid-C20, to right a wing of 1930s. Garden (east) front: three storeys, central break forward pedimented, modillioned stone eaves cornice, ashlar quoins to corners. Two plus one plus two windows: central window Venetian with stone architrave, flanking windows with stone architraves and consoles to stone sills. All are 15-pane sashes. Second floor with 6-pane sashes with a central Diocletian window. Central entrance in Venetian pattern. Projecting wings on each side with three semi-circular headed niches. Interior: staircase has iron twist balusters and carved tread ends. (BoE, p 292; Reid, P: Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses, Volume II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, 1980, p 214).
Listing NGR: SO8301779619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157141
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 292
Reid, P, Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, Vol. 2, (1980), 214
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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