The Birches
THE BIRCHES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188740
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Birches
- Statutory Address:
- THE BIRCHES
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08691/11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188740
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Birches
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BIRCHES
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:
- THE BIRCHES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Highley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 74145 83964
Details
In the entry for HIGHLEY HIGHLEY
32/5 The Birches
The description shall be amended to read:
Vicarage, now house, c.1620 for Robert Barret; extended to left and altered c.1750; further mid C19 and C20 alteration. Timber-framed, mostly rendered and, to rear, replaced by brick; gabled plain old tile roofs; two early C17 rear lateral stacks of squared and coursed stone finished in C19 brick. Cross -shaped plan, with central porch and former kitchen in basement to right; bay to left added in mid C18. 2 storeys; garden front of 4-window range, including C17 three - bay range with projecting central gabled bay. Bay to right has straight bracing to exposed timber frame, with square first-floor framing and close studding to ground floor, and two C17 four - light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned and transomed windows; jettied porch has square panelling to first floor with ovolo- moulded jetty bressummer, and mid C19 three - and 4 - light Gothick -style windows; rendered arches over C20 windows and door (with glazed porch) to left. Jettied right-end gable, with ovolo-moulded bressummer, has lunette set over mid C18 canted 2-storey bay with glazing-bar sashes (of 1989) set in Gothick-style architraves; crenellated left gable wall, probably of mid C18, has lunette set above label moulds over C20 windows. Mid C19 stair- light with leaded lights to rear.C17 rear wing has brackets to hipped hood over mid C19 half-glazed Gothick-style door. Interior: Large open fireplace to right of cellar. Mid C18 panelled doors set in moulded wood architraves. C17 house divided into 2 large rooms by timber-framed partition with ovolo-moulded doorway to rear: room to left has reset early C17 panelling with heraldic cartouche to overmantle, and cased beam; room to right has chamfered beams; rear wing has mid C18 open-well staircase with turned balusters, ramped handrail, fret-cut brackets to open string and splat balusters from ground floor to cellar; first-floor room to right has mid C18 fireplace with bold cornice, and chamfered beam with lambs- tongue stops repeated in room to left; attic has trenched purlin trusses with reused C15 principal rafters (mortices for windbraces and tenoned butt purlins) and collar with carved boss from C15 arch- braced roof. Mid C18 extension to left has mid C19 dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and reset C17 splat balusters to attic. (G. Nair, Highley, 1988, p.82).
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1. 1954 HIGHLEY HIGHLEY
The Birches SO 78 SW 32/5
II
2. Formerly the Vicarage. C19. plastered walls, with tiled roof and brick stacks; 2 storeys and attic. Irregular on plan and elevations; sashes and casement windows; semi-circular windows in gables.
Listing NGR: SO7414583964
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 254726
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nair, G, Highley, (1988), 82
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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