Avenue House
AVENUE HOUSE, CLIFTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201802
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Avenue House
- Statutory Address:
- AVENUE HOUSE, CLIFTON ROAD
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- 2000-07-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/00818/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201802
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Avenue House
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVENUE HOUSE, CLIFTON 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:
- AVENUE HOUSE, CLIFTON 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:
- SJ 88938 00189
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SJ8900 CLIFTON ROAD, Tettenhall 895-1/9/122 (South side) 03/02/77 Avenue House
GV II
House, now old people's residential home. c1840 with later alterations. Stuccoed brick; hipped slate roof with stuccoed stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; symmetrical 5-window garden front with narrow extension to left end. Chanelled rustication to ground floor; 1st floor sill band; top frieze and cornice; quoin strips. Ground floor has French window with flanking canted bays; 1st floor has windows in architraves with apron panels and 4-pane sashes; verandah on cast-iron columns has openwork frieze and swept roof; cross-axial stack with round shafts with cornices. Returns and rear similar; left return has later windows; right return has projecting ingle type breast, porch with round-headed entrance and 4-fielded-panelled door; rear has recessed stair window and entrance; lateral stack. INTERIOR: stained glass to stair window and rear room with Shakespearian characters; moulded frieze and ceiling;rococo plaster ceiling to drawing room; mid C18 cornices.
Listing NGR: SJ8893800189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378387
- 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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