Orleton House, Middle House, and Orleton Cottage

Orleton House, Middle House, and Orleton Cottage, Orleton, Stanford Bridge, Worcester, WR6 6SU

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246333
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-2001
List Entry Name:: Orleton House, Middle House, and Orleton Cottage
Statutory Address:: Orleton House, Middle House, and Orleton Cottage, Orleton, Stanford Bridge, Worcester, WR6 6SU

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246333
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-2001
List Entry Name:: Orleton House, Middle House, and Orleton Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Orleton House, Middle House, and Orleton Cottage, Orleton, Stanford Bridge, Worcester, WR6 6SU

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Orleton House, Middle House, and Orleton Cottage, Orleton, Stanford Bridge, Worcester, WR6 6SU

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:: Stanford with Orleton
National Grid Reference:: SO6952767043

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/06/2020

SO66NE 1087/5/10007 30-APR-01

STANFORD WITH ORLETON STANFORD BRIDGE ORLETON Orleton House, Middle House, and Orleton Cottage

(Formerly listed as Orleton House and The Cottage, STANFORD BRIDGE)

II

House and service range. Dated 1858; with circa C17 core to house. Red brick with blue brick diapering and quoins and stone dressings. Clay plain tile roof with shaped gables with obelisk finials. Brick stacks with thin shafts, corbelled brick caps and louvred yellow clay pots.

PLAN: double-depth plan with central entrance leading to central stairhall; service rooms to rear left [west]; detached former service range to right [north]. Jacobean style.

EXTERIOR: two storeys, attic and cellar. Asymmetrical 1:2 bay north east front, gabled projection on left with two storey canted bay, two windows on right with shaped gable dormers above; two-, three-, and four-light stone mullion-transom windows with iron casements. Left-hand south east return, two gables projecting on left and centre, the left with two storey canted bay, narrow recess between with dated shield between ground and first floor windows. South west elevation, gabled on left and with lateral stack on right. North west elevation facing courtyard, gabled left and right and with pyramidal roof over servants' stair tower with bellcote above with weathervane.

Detached service range to left [north] of front: two storeys, 3:3 bay front with octagonal pavilion on right with four-centred arch doorway, two-light stone mulliom windows with iron casements; earlier brickwork at rear.

INTERIOR: high quality oak joinery, including panelled doors and an open-well staircase with turned balusters and panelled newels with onion finials. Moulded ceiling cornices, chimneypieces and newel, back staircase. Brick fireplace and some earlier chamfered first and second floor beams in north corner of house. Brick vaulted cellars.

Listing NGR: SO6952767043

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 487311
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.