Wolverley Court
WOLVERLEY COURT, WOLVERLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172846
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wolverley Court
- Statutory Address:
- WOLVERLEY COURT, WOLVERLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172846
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wolverley Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOLVERLEY COURT, WOLVERLEY ROAD
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 COURT, WOLVERLEY ROAD
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 83065 78909
Details
In the entry for:
6/160 WOLVERLEY & COOKLEY WOLVERLEY ROAD (south side) Wolverley Court
The description shall be amended to read:
Large house, now nursing home. Built c.1600 for the Attwood family; refronted and remodelled c.1820-30. Squared and coursed sandstone of c.1600 to ground and first floors with C17 brick to third floor, all of which is colour-washed; early C19 stucco to front and to right-hand wing; hipped Welsh slate roofs; brick ridge and end stacks. L-plan with rear right wing. 3 storeys; 5-window range. Projecting 3-storey entrance bay with Doric columns to portico set in front of 6-panelled door. Hipped roof over bay window with three 15-pane sashes; flat rendered arches over 15-pane sashes above and to left of porch, 12-pane first-floor sashes and 6-pane second-floor sashes. Left side wall has 6-light chamfered stone-mullioned and transomed first-floor window and 4-light chamfered stone-mullioned second-floor window of c.1600 and 2 early C19 16-pane sashes. Rear elevation has similar mullioned and transomed windows of up to 3 lights, blocked doorway of c.1600; early C19 sashes to rear right wing. Early C19 2-storey, 1-bay extension with sashes to right, and 1-storey service range to left. Interior: cellar of c.1600 built of coursed and dressed sandstone has wood bressummer over open fireplace with bread oven, which suggests use of this room as a basement kitchen of the late C16/C17 house. Rest of interior is early C19, with moulded plaster cornices, panelled doors set in panelled reveals and panelled room to left; large entrance hall has dog-leg staircase with stick balusters, fret-cut brackets and wreathed handrail.
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WOLVERLEY & COOKLEY CP WOLVERLEY ROAD (south side) SO 87 NW 6/160 Wolverley Court 20.10.52 - II House. Early C19 with some mid-C20 alterations. Stuccoed brick with hipped slate roof. Three storeys, deep boarded eaves, 2 plus 1 plus 2 windows: glazing bar sashes on second floor of 6 panes. Full height central projecting porch. Ground floor with 2 15-pane sashes to left, square bay window to right; entrance has 2 engaged Doric columns and moulded cornice.
Listing NGR: SO8306578909
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157152
- 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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