The Museum
The Museum, Enville Hall, Enville, Stourbridge, DY7 5HD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1278514
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- The Museum
- Statutory Address:
- The Museum, Enville Hall, Enville, Stourbridge, DY7 5HD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1278514
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Museum, Enville Hall, Enville, Stourbridge, DY7 5HD
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:
- The Museum, Enville Hall, Enville, Stourbridge, DY7 5HD
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:
- SO 82317 86347
Details
SO 8286
14/34
ENVILLE C.P.
ENVILLE HALL
The Museum
[Formerly listed under ENVILLE PARK. Previously listed as 'Summerhouse (or Museum) at Enville Hall']
27.6.63
II*
Summerhouse. Circa 1750 with mid/late C19 additions. Traditionally attributed to Sanderson Miller. In an ornate Gothick style. One storey; string course with tassellated fringe. Large central bay and two smaller flanking bays, all recessed-beneath moulded ogee arches springing from clustered columns with moulded bases and capitals, corner buttresses, each with double niche and finial. Pointed glazing bar sashes to left and right with intersecting tracery. Central doorway, and flanking windows with glazing bars in quatrefoil patterns; all three openings have ogee arches on clustered columns with palmette capitals. In the head of each bay arch is a rose window, the central one large; below each of the other two is a blind panel containing two cruciform fleurons. To the rear are two pointed windows with Gothick tracery, a central late C19 external chimney stack and a mid-C19 semi-octagonal turret to the left hand corner with blind pointed loops; originally there were niches at both rear corners.
Interior. Gothick plasterwork survives on the south and east walls and to a lesser extent on the west wall, niches and blind arches with cusped intersecting tracery and crocketed ogee arches; frieze of fleurons and retriculations. Fireplace in centre of north wall with a pair of banded marble columns to each side of a four-centred arch. The traditional attribution of the Museum to Sanderson Miller has recently been challenged by Dr. T. Mowl who has suggested that Henry Keene may have been the architect.
Listing NGR: SO8231786347
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405628
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1984)
Brown, R, The Architectural Outsiders, (1985), 82-97
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,
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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