Bishop Asbury's Cottage
BISHOP ASBURY'S COTTAGE, NEWTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342669
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop Asbury's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BISHOP ASBURY'S COTTAGE, NEWTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2006-09-20
- Reference:
- IOE01/13430/09
- Rights:
- © Mr Walter Chinn. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342669
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop Asbury's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BISHOP ASBURY'S COTTAGE, NEWTON ROAD
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:
- BISHOP ASBURY'S COTTAGE, NEWTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 03149 93918
Details
SANDWELL MB NEWTON ROAD SP 09 SW Great Barr 5/112 Bishop Asbury's Cottage 23.9.55 II
House, now museum. Probably c1700. Brick with tile roof and rendered plinth. One storey with attic, two bays. Windows are casements with glazing bars. On the ground floor they have segmental heads. The attic is lit by dormers. Straight-joints suggest that the ground floor windows have been altered. Doorway at right, with segmental head. Interior: the right hand room has a chamfered axial beam and an inglenook with chamfered bressummer. History: Francis Asbury (1745-1816) lived in the house during his boyhood. In 1771 he emigrated to America, travelled extensively preaching the Methodist message, and in 1784 was made one of two superintendents, or bishops, of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America. (VCH, p 4).
Listing NGR: SP0314993918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219324
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1976), 4
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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