Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse
Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse, Wodehouse Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1277064
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse
- Statutory Address:
- Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse, Wodehouse Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1277064
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse, Wodehouse Lane
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:
- Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse, Wodehouse Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- South Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wombourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SO8860193527
Details
SO 89 SE
5/165
27.6.63
WOMBOURNE C.P.
WODEHOUSE LANE (south side)
Coach house and stable block at The Wodehouse
(Formerly listed as Coach House at the Wodehouse)
GV
II*
Coach house and stable block. Early C18 with late C19 alterations and internal remodelling. Red brick; plain tile roofs; C19 brick end stacks with star shaped shafts.
Two storeys with moulded eaves cornice. 1:3:3:3:1 bays, central pedimented break with first floor band, and two gabled crosswings with coped verges and draped vase finials at the corners. Mainly glazing bar sashes with gauged brick segmental arches and raised keys; crosswings each have a ground floor Venetian window and a niche in the gable, two gauged brick segmental carriage arches to central break with boarded doors; the flanking recesses each have a central C19 panelled door with moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and bracketed pediment, and above a segmental arched opening with moulded architrave and raised key, the left hand one is blocked, the right hand one has a part glazed two-leaf door. Central cupola with semi-circular arched openings, ogee shaped dome and dragon weather vane. The inside return of each crossing has a C19 panelled door with rectangular overlight and wedge shaped plaster lintel grooved as voussoirs, and raised key, and first floor keyed oculus.
Interior. Some stable fittings survive including loose boxes and hay racks.
The northern half of the building was converted into a music room in the late C19 probably for T B Shaw-Hellier.
Listing NGR: SO8860193527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407890
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1984)
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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