Cornwall House
CORNWALL HOUSE, CROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1179894
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cornwall House
- Statutory Address:
- CORNWALL HOUSE, CROSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1179894
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cornwall House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORNWALL HOUSE, CROSS STREET
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:
- CORNWALL HOUSE, CROSS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tenbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 59457 68041
Details
TENBURY CP CROSS STREET (west side) SO 5868 - 5968 8/94 Cornwall House 6.10.52
GV II*
House. Late C17, altered late C19. Finely jointed handmade brick, plain tiled roof and shaped gable-end parapets with kneelers. Two storeys and attic; three-course band at first floor level; two-course band at attic floor level and moulded timber eaves cornice. Seven bays. Most of the windows are original and have gauged flat heads and long narrow single- light leaded casements. The windows of the outer bays of the first floor are blind. The windows of the outer two bays of the ground floor have been replaced by tripartite sash windows with cambered heads and central 8-pane sashes. The central entrance has its original moulded hooded timber canopy on shaped brackets, a four-panelled door with a moulded architrave and a tran- som light. Attic lights at gable ends. Interior: the house is one room deep with a central hall containing the original staircase which has moulded hand- rails, turned balusters and some original square newel posts. A small locked recess in the top step is said to have been used to conceal money. The parlour to the south has an C18 overmantel (not in situ) and adjacent cupboard of semi- circular plan. The house is said to have been built by Thomas Cornwall as a dower-house for his wife Ann. (VCH, IV, p 363; BoE, p 279).
Listing NGR: SO5945768041
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150785
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 363
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 279
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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