Picton House
PICTON HOUSE, 42, HIGH STREET, BROADWAY, WR12 7DT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1214750
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Picton House
- Statutory Address:
- PICTON HOUSE, 42, HIGH STREET, BROADWAY, WR12 7DT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1214750
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Picton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PICTON HOUSE, 42, HIGH STREET, BROADWAY, WR12 7DT
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:
- PICTON HOUSE, 42, HIGH STREET, BROADWAY, WR12 7DT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadway
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 09734 37552
Details
SP 0937
8/38
BROADWAY CP
HIGH STREET (north side)
No 42 (Picton House)
30.7.59
GV
II*
House. Circa 1700 with early and late C18 additions and alterations. Limestone ashlar with stone slate roof. Two storeys with attic. Earliest part of five bays. Windows are sashed with glazing bars and have rebated and chamfered surrounds and projecting sills. Narrow stones in the jambs suggest that they originally had a mullion and transom. Above the ground floor windows is a band of narrow stones, possibly where a string course has been removed. At the left are two added bays which have sashes with glazing bars, plain reveals, projecting sills, and keyed lintels. At the right is another addition of one bay which has a sash with glazing bars, plain reveals, and projecting sill above an elliptical arch to a yard entrance. Five hipped attic dormers. The door, in the middle bay, is of six panels within a lugged architrave of c1700 with a transom light and an added projecting timber hood. At the rear a wing projecting from the early part of the house has rebated and chamfered mullioned windows.
Interior: right-hand room has exposed chamfered beam and stone inglenook fireplace with timber bressummer.
Listing NGR: SP0973437552
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399577
- 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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