Wormsley Grange
WORMSLEY GRANGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301596
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wormsley Grange
- Statutory Address:
- WORMSLEY GRANGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301596
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wormsley Grange
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORMSLEY GRANGE
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:
- WORMSLEY GRANGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brinsop and Wormsley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 43431 48573
Details
WORMSLEY CP - SO 44 NW 4/91 Wormsley Grange 2.9.66 GV II House. Probably early C18 with mid-C19 and later alterations. Squared sandstone rubble, sandstone ashlar and tiled roofs with sandstone end stacks. Brick vaulted cellars. Rectangular plan of two parallel ranges aligned north/south with service wing attached to south-west corner. Cellar and three storeys with attics. East elevation has five windows, glazing bar sashes, those to centre misaligned for staircase. Ground floor has a pair of 3-light bay windows, probably mid-C19, with glazing bar sashes separated by moulded attached shafts rising to cornice. Central six-panelled door. Attached to left is one-window service wing with hipped pantiled roof. Interior has large brick barrel vaulted cellar with chamfered sandstone doorways. Ground floor has fragments of C17 panelling, flagged stone floor and two juxtaposed kitchen fireplaces in sandstone with arches and dropped keystones. Four-flight dog-leg C18 oak staircase with turned balusters. Trusses have plain collars and cambered tie-beams. Attics have early C19 cast iron fireplaces with raised baskets. Wormsley Grange was the birthplace of Richard Payne Knight (qv) and Thomas Andrew Knight (qv) whose monuments are in the nearby churchyard of the Church of St Mary (qv). (BoE, p 326).
Listing NGR: SO4343148573
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149772
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 326
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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