CHARLTON HOUSE GARDEN HOUSE LUDFORD HOUSE ST GILES HOUSE

CHARLTON HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1291720
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:: CHARLTON HOUSE GARDEN HOUSE LUDFORD HOUSE ST GILES HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CHARLTON HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1291720
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Aug-1993
List Entry Name:: CHARLTON HOUSE GARDEN HOUSE LUDFORD HOUSE ST GILES HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CHARLTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 2:: GARDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address 3:: LUDFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address 4:: ST GILES HOUSE

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:: CHARLTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GARDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LUDFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ST GILES HOUSE

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ludford
National Grid Reference:: SO 51266 74084

Details

LUDFORD

SO5174 Ludford House, St Giles House, 825-1/1/58 Charlton House, Garden House 15/11/54 (Formerly Listed as: Ludford House, St Giles House, Charlton House)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Ludford House. Large house. Part late medieval, part C16 and C17, much altered and restored C19 and C20. Now divided. St Giles House (north east front): rubble; timber-frame, with brick to 1st floor; C20 slate roof; various stacks with brick superstructures on stone bases, including spur-buttressed stack to rear. 2 storeys. Irregular fenestration: large bay with stone mullion and transom to ground floor, and wood casements to 1st floor, under jettied gable; various lights and casements and, to far right, jettied porch bay with enriched barge boards over recessed plank door in moulded stone case. Wing to left of rubble with buttressed gables and further timber-framed wing; ashlar composite stack. Charlton House (north west front): rubble wing to right with stone mullion and transom lights; early C19 sashes, and C20 casements; brick stacks. Ludford House: front to road buttressed by 4 massive rubble stacks with brick superstructures; various lights under stone drip-courses; plank door and openings (some blocked) under segmental arches. Wing to right of rubble, with timber-frame and brick to 1st floor; various lights and casements; chamfered stone four-centred arch with panelled double doors, to courtyard passage. Courtyard range (now dwellings): timber-frame and brick, on rubble. Main, south east, front: timber-framed with mid C19 iron balcony over C20 stone porch with Ionic pilasters. Above balcony: restored gable. To left: projecting timber-frame gable wing; further, rubble wing. Garden House: C17 cottage addition.

Listing NGR: SO5134174124

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Legacy System number:: 389680
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.