Guesten Hall Roof
GUESTEN HALL ROOF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348531
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Guesten Hall Roof
- Statutory Address:
- GUESTEN HALL ROOF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348531
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Guesten Hall Roof
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUESTEN HALL ROOF
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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:
- GUESTEN HALL ROOF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 95229 68422
Details
SO 95 68 STOKE PRIOR CP AVONCROFT MUSEUM OF BUILDINGS Stoke Heath
17/92 Guesten Hall Roof
GV II*
Roof. c1320, rebuilt 1865 and restored early 1970s. Timber-framed with corrugated asbestos cladding. Seven bays (eight trusses) of an ornate roof; each truss has an arch-braced collar, with two raking struts above, the central part of the V is a quatrefoil, the two spandrels are trefoils; there are two tiers of moulded purlins with cupsed and pierced wind-braces. This was on the Guesten Hall of Worcester Priory until that building was demolished; it was re-erected on Holy Trinity Church, Worcester in 1865; the church was demolished in 1969 and the roof was then re-erected on the ground at Avoncroft, restored to its original pitch. (FWB Charles, The Guesten Hall Roof, Worcester Cathedral. A Survey. Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, NS, Vol 18, 1971, pp 49 - 63).
Listing NGR: SO9522968422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156143
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society in Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, Vol. 18, (1971), 49-63
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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