Beckminster House
BECKMINSTER HOUSE, BIRCHES BARN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201773
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Beckminster House
- Statutory Address:
- BECKMINSTER HOUSE, BIRCHES BARN ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14837/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201773
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Beckminster House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BECKMINSTER HOUSE, BIRCHES BARN 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:
- BECKMINSTER HOUSE, BIRCHES BARN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO8997897198
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO89NE BIRCHES BARN ROAD
895-1/4/371 (South West side)
02/03/92 Beckminster House
II
Large house now teachers' centre. c1845, altered. For John
William Sparrow, a local iron-master. Red brick with ashlar
dressings and blue-brick diaper work; patterned red and blue
tile roof. 2 storeys and attic; asymmetrical 4-bay front to
double-depth plan with central stair-hall. Tudor Revival
style. Chamfered plinth; ashlar quoins; square-headed,
mullioned and transomed windows mostly with hoodmoulds. Ashlar
porch, near centre, has double-chamfered, 2-centred arch with
carved hoodmould stops and blind-traceried spandrels; stained
glass to lancet windows in each return; parapet with
roll-moulded copings which step over a blank shield. Bay 4
projects and is gabled: 3-light windows set within diaperwork,
2-light window to attic. To left of porch are two single-light
windows to each floor, cross-window above porch. Bay 1 is also
gabled and has lateral stack with quoins and offsets; the
chimney shafts missing. Both gables with kneelers and copings;
the main roof between has 2 roof dormers and 2 ornate stacks
to the ridge and others to rear. Rear: ashlar bay-window to
ground floor on left. Projection on right with corbelled
corner details and gabled half-dormer to hipped roof with iron
finial. Right return: 5 bays, the gabled centre breaks forward
and has a transomed 3-light stair-window with Gothic Revival
tracery and leaded lights.
INTERIOR: Gothic Revival wooden staircase with spiral-turned
balusters linked by cusped arches under a moulded handrail;
square newels with sunken panels and with finials and
pendants. Stair-hall has painted ashlar fireplace with shield,
ribbons and sunken quatrefoils. Principal rooms to front-right
and rear-right have excellent fireplaces; one has iron grate
with tile insets in white marble surround with 2-centred arch
and traceried spandrels; the other of dark crinoidal limestone
and in similar style. 1st floor: octagonal ceiling panel on
landing; several marble fireplaces with shields.
Listing NGR: SO8997897198
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378308
- 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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