Upper House
UPPER HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208668
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Upper House
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208668
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Upper House
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPER HOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- UPPER HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Madeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 69503 04179
Details
MADELEY CHURCH STREET 1. 5362 Upper House SJ 6904SW 11/471 SJ 6904SE 12/471
II GV
2. Said to have been built circa 1621 by Francis Woolf, but much altered. Circa early C17 north-west wing partly timber-framed, mostly roughcast, but with some timber framing exposed in gable on west side; 3-storeys, one bay gabled and with large side stack with diagonal brick shafts. Circa early C18 stuccoed wing to east with steeply pitched plain tile roof with gabled ends and parapet; 2-storeys and attic, 5 bays, first floor modern fenestration, ground floor 3 stone mullion/transom windows and doorcase with panelled pilasters and entablature with pediment. Venetian window in gable end. Central brick stack. Two C18 ashlar wings at rear forming U-shaped plan; venetian windows on the east side and gable end. The east side also has some late C19 gothic windows. Interior: chamfered ceiling beams in the north-west wing. Early C19 geometric stone staircase in rear of main range. Plaster ceiling frieze and cornice in ground floor room (No. 1 Court). Former provisional list description "Interior stated to have cast-iron frieze in lounge, and priest's hole.
Listing NGR: SJ6950304179
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 362324
- 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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