Keepers Lodge
KEEPERS LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1307703
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Keepers Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- KEEPERS LODGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1307703
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Keepers Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEEPERS LODGE
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:
- KEEPERS LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Acton Burnell
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 54436 01591
Details
ACTON BURNELL C.P. ACTON BURNELL PARK SJ 50 SW 6/19 Keepers Lodge 9.7.85 - II* Shown on O.S. map as Sham Castle. Prospect tower. 1779-80, by Samuel Scoltock. Cement rendered over red brick on rubble plinth, flat roof. Triangular plan with circular corner towers. Gothick style. 2 storeys. Stone coped battlemented parapet; 2 brick stacks to south-west tower. First-floor arched windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds with moulded stops. 3-window front to north- west, ground floor square windows with flat arches; door to right in centre. Interior: first-floor room has enriched plaster wall decoration consisting of swags, drops, roundels with wreaths and trophies, oval plaques with decorative surrounds, enriched plaster cornice with shell decoration, flat ceiling with surviving plaster showing evidence of former decoration, and moulded window architraves; the south-east tower formerly contained a staircase which is said to have been removed soon after the 1939-45 war, a dado rail still marks its course on the wall; a late C18 fireplace formerly in the first-floor room is now said to be in a house in the village. Samuel Scoltock (c.1739-1819) was a brick- layer by trade and with Edward Massey jointly designed Millington's Hospital in Shrewsbury; he is buried in Shrewsbury Abbey. Burnell/ Smythe papers, Shropshire Records Office; Colvin, p.724.
Listing NGR: SJ5443601591
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259671
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 35 Shropshire,
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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