Church House
CHURCH HOUSE, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217941
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH HOUSE, RECTORY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217941
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH HOUSE, RECTORY LANE
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:
- CHURCH HOUSE, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wyre Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stourport-on-Severn
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 80213 70961
Details
STOURPORT ON SEVERN
SO 8070 NW
RECTORY LANE, Areley Kings
(North west side)
589-1/11/87
Church House
5/7/50
GV II*
Church house. Mid to late C16; late C20 extension. Timber-framed with plastered and painted brick infilling to panels. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. PLAN: Three remaining bays; truncated at the right [NE] end; left [SW] bay originally partitioned from the other two bays; first floor jet tied on three sides and open to the roof, the narrow right [NE] bay originally partitioned off. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, Jet tied SE front, left [SW] end and rear [NW] on rounded joist ends and curved brackets to the posts, dragon-posts on the S and W corners; ground floor two small circa early C19 2-light metal casements and plank door to left; first floor hatch to right of centre with plank door and two C20 casements above. Brick single-storey lean-to on left [SW] end with late C20 stair turret rising through it. Rear [NW] 3 windows, late C20 casements, first floor left of centre remains of oriel with shallow cill on jowled stud. NE gable end, brick ground floor, late C20 casement on first floor to left. INTERIOR: Ground floor one room, framed ceiling with chamfered beams and unchamfered joists, on jowled storey-posts; SW bay with dragon-beams and redundant mortices for missing partition. First floor open tie-beam and queen- strut trusses with two tiers of tenoned purlins, lower purlins with straight wind-braces, all stop- chamfered except for the wind-braces; intermediate collar-and-tie-beam truss at NE end with redundant mortices for partition. SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.71.
Listing NGR: SO8021370961
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393377
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 71
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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