The Reader's House
THE READER'S HOUSE, CHURCHYARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1220775
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Reader's House
- Statutory Address:
- THE READER'S HOUSE, CHURCHYARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1220775
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Reader's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE READER'S HOUSE, CHURCHYARD
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:
- THE READER'S HOUSE, CHURCHYARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ludlow
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 51195 74733
Details
LUDLOW
SO5174 CHURCHYARD 825-1/1/223 The Reader's House 15/04/54
GV I
Church house. c1616, with earlier origins. Rubble; timber-frame and plaster; C20 plain tiles; 2 rubble gable stacks with brick superstructures. 3-storeys: central timber-frame and plaster projecting porch-bay has 10-light moulded wood mullion and transom window, and 6-light mullion and transom to left, with further 8-light window to right side under moulded bressummer, and 2-light window with leaded lights and casement to left; moulded sill on enriched consoles. 4-light moulded wood mullion and transom window with leaded lights, over, under bressummer with inscription; enriched consoles; enriched barge boards; moulded wood mullion window to far left. Studded plank stable door with strap hinges, and ornate doorcase with Jacobean carving, and enriched lintel; openings with balusters and iron bars to side; all under moulded bressummer; C20 leaded light, in moulded case, and further 2-light canted mullion window with leaded lights, to left. Left gable has decorative bracing and enriched barge boards. Right gable jettied to 1st and 2nd floors with much restored framing, and C20 barge boards. INTERIOR: early C17 winder stair from ground to 1st floor; spiral stair with chamfered newel to 2nd floor; stone fireplaces with oak lintels; moulded ceiling-frames with ogee-stop chamfers; decorative plasterwork ceilings; panelling; plank door in moulded stone case, under porch. (Lloyd D: Notes for VAG Shropshire conference: 1981-: PP.18-19).
Listing NGR: SO5119574733
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389847
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1981), 18-19
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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