Bradford House and Adjoining Garden Walls
BRADFORD HOUSE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALLS, BRADFORD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348574
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bradford House and Adjoining Garden Walls
- Statutory Address:
- BRADFORD HOUSE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALLS, BRADFORD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348574
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bradford House and Adjoining Garden Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRADFORD HOUSE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALLS, BRADFORD LANE
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:
- BRADFORD HOUSE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALLS, BRADFORD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Belbroughton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 92084 76341
Details
SO 97 NW BELBROUGHTON CP BRADFORD LANE (east side)
6/7 Bradford House and adjoining garden walls 23.4.52 (formerly listed as Bradford House)
GV II*
House and adjoining garden walls. Late C17 on older site with c1770 and c1930 alterations and additions. Dressed coursed sandstone rubble with sandstone ashlar additions; plain tiled roofs with gable-end parapets; massive brick stacks with ashlar caps. H-plan. Part two storeys and attic with cellar, part three storeys and attic. North front elevation: most windows have moulded keyblocks; central part has irregular fenestration; 12-pane sash windows, one on ground floor, one at landing level and two on first floor; also first floor 9-pane sash. All are later insertions as is the central entrance which has a Palladian motif of open pediment on two pairs of pilasters, each pair enclosing a 6-pane window, a central round-headed archway; door has six raised and fielded panels and a barred segmental fanlight. Left gable end has two ground floor cross-casements; two first floor 12-pane sashes and two second floor 2-light casements. Right gable end has two 12-pane sashes on ground and first floor. Both gable ends have moulded strings at attic level and oval windows in the gable apex. Interior: retains C17 main roof structure. Large sandstone fireplace. Room to front right of ground floor has complete Georgian interior with ornate gilded plasterwork of foliated design, panelled walls and decorative chimneypiece. c1930 service wings adjoin to left side. A sandstone wall of C17 adjoins to rear left and runs south for about 30 yards, about 10 feet high and has archway adjacent to house. At the south end is a three-yard west return in C17 brick. Also C17 brick wall with sandstone coping adjoining house to front right corner. It runs west for about 24 yards before returning south for 35 yards. It is mainly about 15 feet high but halfway along the south return is a wrought iron gate and beyond this gate it lowers to a height of about 10 feet. (BoE, p 78).
Listing NGR: SO9208476341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156272
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 78
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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