YEATON PEVEREY

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1295602
Date first listed:: 31-May-1973
List Entry Name:: YEATON PEVEREY
Statutory Address:: YEATON PEVEREY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1295602
Date first listed:: 31-May-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: YEATON PEVEREY
Statutory Address 1:: YEATON PEVEREY

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:: YEATON PEVEREY

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pimhill
National Grid Reference:: SJ4423418804

Details

SJ 41 NW 5/42 31.5.73

BOMERE HEATH C.P. YEATON PEVEREY (formerly listed as Yeaton Peavery).

GV II*

Shown on O.S. map as Yeaton Pevery. Large country house, latterly school, now disused. 1890-2 (dated 1892), by Aston Webb for Sir Offley Wakeman. Red sandstone ashlar, and some timber framing to rear with plastered infill. Graded slate roofs. In a free Jacobean style. 2 storeys and attic with service wing of one storey and attic. Chamfered plinths, moulded string courses, and parapets with moulded copings, some sections pierced and with obelisk finials. Tall brick stacks consisting of grouped shafts with round arches between and over- sailing caps; pair of tall integral ashlar end stacks to west. Mainly moulded mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights, some with separate dripstones. North (entrance) front: the main elements of this asymmetrical composition include: 3-storey square tower off-centre to left with entrance consisting of a pair of 3-panelled doors and moulded round archway with carved coat of arms above; frieze with carved inscription, carried round from wing to left. Pierced parapet with obelisks; octagonal stone cupola on square base in right-hand front corner, with louvred round arches and ogee lead dome with weathervane. 2-storey wing projecting to left with pair of 2-light first-floor windows and ground- floor wide segmental bow with large 5-light window. 3-window hall range off-centre to right with various mullioned and transomed windows, including central ground-floor canted bay. Gabled wing to right with 2-storey canted bay. Right-hand return front: 4 small gables; the outer pair project and have tall panelled ashlar stacks with battlemented caps, that to left integral and that to right to one side of gable with moulding at base dying into wall. Inscription to frieze below. String course, carried round to south front. Small one-storey canted bay in angle to right with battlemented parapet. Conservatory to left with buttresses, battlemented parapet and hipped glazed roof. South (garden) front: 1:5:1 bays. Projecting outer wings with first-floor oriel windows. Sundial beneath left-hand oriel. Recessed centre with jettied timber framed first floor; 3 central gabled oriel windows with wooden mullioned and transomed windows and much well-carved detail, the central window with 2 central canted lights. Service range adjoining to west, with mullioned and transomed stone windows, gabled dormers and semi dormers and plain ashlar stacks. Central projecting gabled wing to north with small square ogee-capped cupola on ridge. Interior not inspected but known to exist from photographs (N.M.R.). Richly detailed neo-Jacobean ornament and fittings. Entrance/staircase hall with panelling and deeply-moulded cross beamed ceiling. Lower staircase- end has pierced elliptical drop arcading with pendants. Dog-leg staircase with closed string, barleysugar balusters, moulded handrail and panelled square newel posts with pierced finials. Balustraded gallery. Other richly decorated rooms, with ornamental panelling, enriched plaster ceilings and wall decoration, inglenooks and chimney-pieces. Some original wallpaper and light fittings. The house stands in landscaped grounds, including a terrace (q.v.), forecourt walls with pavilions (q.v.), and a stable block (q.v.) to the north-east. B.o.E., p. 331; Clive Aslet, The Last Country Houses (1982), pp. 131 and 331; Julia Wolton, Endangered Domains (1985), Save, p. 16; Shropshire Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 6 (August 1971), p. 33; N.M.R.

Listing NGR: SJ4423418804

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 259103
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Aslet, C, The Last Country House, (1982), 131
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 331
Wolton, J, Endangered Domains, (1985), 16
'Shropshire Magazine' in August, , Vol. 24, (1971), 33

Legal

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