BERRINGTON HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176922
Date first listed:: 14-May-1986
List Entry Name:: BERRINGTON HALL
Statutory Address:: BERRINGTON HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176922
Date first listed:: 14-May-1986
List Entry Name:: BERRINGTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BERRINGTON HALL

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:: BERRINGTON HALL

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Berrington
National Grid Reference:: SJ5259307515

Details

BERRINGTON C.P. -

SJ 50 NW 3/23

Berrington Hall

GV II

Shown on O.S. map as Rectory. Rectory, now small country house. 1805, by Joseph Bromfield (c.1743- 1824) of Shrewsbury for the Hon. and Rev. Richard Noel Hill. Red brick with grey sandstone ashlar dressings; hipped slate roof. 1:1:5:1 bay rhythm; central 5-bay block with set back one-bay service pavilion to left and one-bay link block between, and set-back one-bay block to right, possibly link to former right-hand pavilion. 2 and 3 storeys. Stone plinth, frieze and dentil eaves cornice; 4 brick ridge stacks. Glazing bar sashes with gauged brick heads, painted imitation in 2 right-hand bays, 2 steps up to central pair of half-glazed flush- panelled doors and ashlar porch with paired Tuscan columns, architrave and frieze, and triangular pediment; 4-bay return fronts, left-hand with painted imitation sashes in 2 right-hand bays, blind hoods to 2 first-floor left-hand sashes, and French casements in left-hand bay, and right-hand with blind windows in third bay from left. 3 storeys and 4 bays at-rear. Left-hand pavilion: stone frieze; paired brick pilaster strips to triangular-pedimented gable end with stone coping; central brick ridge stack, pair of half-glazed flush-panelled doors with blind box over; 4-bay left-hand return front. Right-hand link block has paired brick pilaster strips to triangular-pedimented gable end. Interior: largely unaltered; moulded cornices and enriched plaster soffits, 6-panelled doors, reeded architraves with corner paterae, reeded fireplace surrounds, and panelled internal window shutters throughout; 3-flight square-well staircase with landings, open string, wrought iron balustrade with anthemion ornament, wreathed handrail and curtail with columnular newel, and circular domed top light; back staircase with stick balusters. Joseph Bromfield was a plasterer by trade. The house, service wing and stable block (q.v.) enclose 3 sides of a service courtyard to the east. It is possible that a north pavilion was intended but the pilastered gable end to the link matches the treatment of the south pavilion and suggests that a north pavilion was never built and probably not envisaged. This is a very well preserved example of an ambitious early C19 rectory. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p.25; Colvin, p.142.

Listing NGR: SJ5259307515

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Legacy System number:: 259675
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 142
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 25

Legal

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