Eagle House
EAGLE HOUSE, 17-20, CORVE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220996
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Eagle House
- Statutory Address:
- EAGLE HOUSE, 17-20, CORVE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220996
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Eagle House
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAGLE HOUSE, 17-20, CORVE 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:
- EAGLE HOUSE, 17-20, CORVE STREET
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 51136 74947
Details
LUDLOW
SO5174 CORVE STREET 825-1/1/239 (West side) 16/05/90 Nos.17-20 (Consecutive) Eagle House (Formerly Listed as: CORVE STREET (West side) Nos.19 AND 20 Eagle House)
GV II
Houses, now restaurant, offices and dwellings. Mid C19 to C17 core. Painted brick; Welsh slate roof; brick end stack to right. 2-unit plan, with wings to rear. 3-storeys and cellar; 5-window range: mid C19, 6/6 sashes under grooved stucco lintels, with wrought-iron guards; 3/3 sashes over; deep boarded soffit to eaves. No.17: central entrance with 6-panel door in panelled case under moulded flat hood on plain pilasters; to right, blocked doorway; to left, late C19 tripartite light with moulded mullions and coloured leaded lights. No.20: central entrance with C20 half-glazed door, and overlight with glazing bars, under moulded flat hood on plain pilasters; flanked by plate-glass windows in early C20 cases with moulded flat hoods on consoles and plain pilasters. Rear: gable wing with steep pitched roof; tall composite brick lateral stack, and brick end stack; further wing with weather-boarded 1st floor under corrugated iron roof, on mid C19 brick and rendered brick ground floor with three 2/2 sashes and C20 stable door; C19 four-panel door in chamfered frame; mid C19, 2/2 sash with leaded lights. Mid C19 casement over passage way. Parallel wing (to No.20): C20 fenestration to ground floor with C19 light and casement over; rear gable shows earlier roof line. INTERIOR of Eagle House: C18 panelling to entrance hall, passage, front and rear ground floor rooms (salvaged from Acton Scott Hall and Bitterley Court); exposed C17 box-framing, with chamfered ceiling beams and massive frame posts; C19 staircase with turned balusters; 1st floor: exposed timber-framing, including queen strut truss and jowelled posts; wattle and daub; fireplace with reused chamfered stone reveals. To rear, Oddfellows' Hall, with deal boarding, pendant-decorated trusses, and cast-iron fire-surround with cornucopia, dove of peace.
Listing NGR: SO5113074940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389864
- 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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