FOUR ASHES HALL AND ATTACHED SERVICE RANGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232596
Date first listed:: 06-May-1994
List Entry Name:: FOUR ASHES HALL AND ATTACHED SERVICE RANGE
Statutory Address:: FOUR ASHES HALL AND ATTACHED SERVICE RANGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232596
Date first listed:: 06-May-1994
List Entry Name:: FOUR ASHES HALL AND ATTACHED SERVICE RANGE
Statutory Address 1:: FOUR ASHES HALL AND ATTACHED SERVICE RANGE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FOUR ASHES HALL AND ATTACHED SERVICE RANGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: South Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Enville
National Grid Reference:: SO8000787719

Details

SO 78 NE 1576-/7/10005

Four Ashes Hall and attached service range

GV II

Small Country House with attached service range to north-west. Mid C19 , incorporating the core of an C18,or earlier house. Red brick, some formerly rendered and lined out, or painted, with stone dressings, coped gables with moulded kneelers, diagonally-set ridge and gable stacks with deeply-corbelled caps and slated and tiled roofs. L-plan house, with attached service range to the north-west enclosing small courtyard. Entrance front to north-east, with gable to left end, with 2 tall blind arches. North-east wing of 2 storeys with attics, and of 6 bays, the 3 bays to the right set back. Wide shallow pointed arch to left end with ashlar surround, with doorway set back within it. Shouldered head to door, with rectangular overlight composed of 2 ogee-headed lights. Flanking the doorway are tall ogee-headed lights. 2 ground floor, and 3 first floor 3-light mullioned and transomed windows within ashlar frames, and below string courses, that to the first floor stepped above the window heads. Attic windows set within steeply-gabled dormers of 2 and 3 lights. Set-back 3 bays with 2 and 3 light mullioned and transomed windows, and 2 2-light gabled dormers. South-east elevation to garden dominated by 2 wide 2 storey bay windows of 4-lights, with tall mullions and undivided sash windows. Gabled heads to bays with small attic lights. Set back double pile range of 2 bays to left end, with wide central gable. Tall glazing bar sash to centre ground floor, below hood mould. Doorway to right with gabled overlight. First floor with 2, 6 over 6 pane sashes with 4 centred arched heads below hood moulds. Small attic light to gable. Asymmetrical gables, each with a first floor sash, and tall sash to ground floor of rear gable. Tall wall at north-west comer, a remnant of a conservatory links house to ornamental bantam house with lean-to roof and, on courtyard side to north-east rear wall with ramped ends, three 6-panel doors, 2 single lights with diagonal glazing, and above, 5 diamond shaped ventilators of openwork brickwork. On north-west side of courtyard and attached to rear of north-east range, service range of 2 storeys, comprised of a 3-bay laundry with a hipped roof, and a set-back 2-bay pantry and game larder. Enclosed by these buildings is a stepped 3-bay C18 building with a dutch gable at the junction of the taller and lower parts. Interior; South-east range contains formal rooms, with wide hall corridor leading to staircase lit by a venetian window. Tall ceilinged rooms to garden elevation with moulded cornice work, panelled reveals and sunken shutters. 6-panelled doors with architrave surrounds, and moulded skirtings. Moulded surrounds to hearths, one of crinoidal limestone. Fitted furniture to library. North-east range with kitchen hearths, and servants quarters. Service range with original fittings. A mid C19 small country house with unaltered interiors and a complete range of service buildings.

Listing NGR: SO8000787719

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Legacy System number:: 407966
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.