Laughern House School
LAUGHERN HOUSE SCHOOL, B4204
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178570
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Laughern House School
- Statutory Address:
- LAUGHERN HOUSE SCHOOL, B4204
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178570
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Laughern House School
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAUGHERN HOUSE SCHOOL, B4204
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:
- LAUGHERN HOUSE SCHOOL, B4204
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Martley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 76614 59593
Details
SO 75 NE MARTLEY B 4204 (s.w. side)
6/99 Laughern House School 12.11.51 (formerly listed as Laughern House)
- II*
Former country house, now school. Late C18 with C19 and C20 alterations, encasing C16 house. Brick with ashlar dressings, and timber-frame with brick infill, low hipped slate roofs, tiles to C16 part. Shallow U-plan to brick building with C16 timber-frame house filling U. 3 storeys, 2nd floor a built- up attic, moulded ashlar plinth, stone coped parapet moulded string above first floor, plain band to ground floor and sill band; 5 bays, central one pedimented and faced in ashlar, sash windows: 8 panes second floor, 16-pane first floor, 20-pane on ground floor, the last with stone architraves (possibly dropped, if sill band no longer at sill level); central bay: pediment with moulded cornice crowns attic; first floor has tripartite sash with engaged Ionic columns in a panel; pedimented tetrastyle Doric portico to ground floor with moulded and dentilled cornice, door below 6-pane rectangular fan light with pointed heads to 3 upper panes; flanked by 10-pane sashes, door panelled. Interior: several doorcases survive with broken pediments and dentilled cornice, with panelled doors. Rear elevation: timber-frame building visible, with gabled cross-wing, much restored in C19. The framing is visible in the ceiling of the kitchen to the right, but not elsewhere internally, and is 3 square panels high externally. (VCH, Vol 4, page 291).
Listing NGR: SO7661459593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 151632
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 291
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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