Wisemore House
WISEMORE HOUSE, WISEMORE STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257885
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Wisemore House
- Statutory Address:
- WISEMORE HOUSE, WISEMORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257885
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Wisemore House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WISEMORE HOUSE, WISEMORE 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:
- WISEMORE HOUSE, WISEMORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 01237 99210
Details
SP 09 NW WALSALL WISEMORE STREET
1690/7/10014 Wisemore House
II
House. c1830 with C20 alterations. Stuccoed brick. Slate hipped roof with deep eaves. Two rendered stacks on left side. PLAN: Single-depth plan with principal room on either side of central entrance passage; single-storey service wing set back on left, west. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay south front, centre first and second floor blind; 12-pane sashes with cornices on console brackets, second floor smaller, without cornices and the lower sash without glazing bars; two large canted bay windows on ground floor with sash windows with glazing bars and pilastered frames; central doorway with engaged Tuscan columns, rectangular overlight with glazing bars and panelled door, the top panels glazed later; the roof of the bays is carried over the centre as a porch. Set back on left a single-storey wing with gable-ended roof. INTERIOR appears to be largely intact. Original joinery, including panelled doors, cupboards, window shutters and chimneypieces with grates. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices, acanthus ceiling roses and arch over hall passage with acanthus consoles. Kitchen has panelled walls and settle. Wisemore House was the home of John Brewer, a coal and lime master, timber merchant, and mayor of Walsall in 1865 to 1897. SOURCE: The Walsall Whip, February 1882.
Listing NGR: SP0123799210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463323
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Walsall Whip in February, (1882)
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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