Great House and Attached Outbuilding Adjoining to Rear
GREAT HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING ADJOINING TO REAR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1350059
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Great House and Attached Outbuilding Adjoining to Rear
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING ADJOINING TO REAR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1350059
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Great House and Attached Outbuilding Adjoining to Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING ADJOINING TO REAR
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:
- GREAT HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING ADJOINING TO REAR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Knighton on Teme
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 64189 71278
Details
SO 67 SW; 1/86
KNIGHTON ON TEME CP,
BICKLEY, Great House and attached outbuilding adjoining to rear
(Formerly listed as Great House)
6.10.52
GV
II*
Farmhouse, now house, and adjoining outbuilding. c1600, remodelled c1709
with further mid-C19 alterations. Part timber-framed with rendered infill
and brick replacement walling, part handmade brick; plain tiled roofs. U-
plan; original part of four framed bays aligned north-west/south-east with
large sandstone chimney with three square brick ridge stacks inserted in
former through-passage to form lobby-entry plan; brick bay added at south-
east gable end with south-west return and external chimney with three square
stacks to south-east side; a matching wing was added to the north-west bay of
the original part. Two storeys and attic; shaped brick gables to additions;
three-course band with central cogged course between main storeys of original
part and also at attic level in south-east addition stepped to form hood above
windows and continued around external chimney; moulded bargeboards at north-
west gable end. Framing: exposed to rear north-east elevation and north-west
gable end mainly at first floor level; three rows of panels from girding-beam
to wall-plate, long straight braces across lower corners; north-west gable end
has jettied attic and first floor level with moulded bressummers on shaped
brackets; collar and tie-beam truss with two collars, eight struts beneath
lower collar, two beneath upper collar and shaped strut in apex. South-west
front elevation: central part has two ground floor casements (one has a
cambered head), two first floor 2-light stone-mullioned windows and a 2-
light casement; central entrance has a moulded brick surround of flanking
pilasters, corbelled out from wall with entablature above and large finials;
C18 studded door has semicircular arched head and date stone above inscribed
with initials "M", a rose beneath flanked by initials "E" and "E" and date
"1709" below. Left gable end has a ground floor 20-pane sash and a 9-pane
first floor sash, both with cambered heads. Right gable end has a ground and
first floor 4-light stone-mullioned window and similar 3-light window in attic;
there are also two ground and two first floor 2-light stone-mullioned windows
in the angle with the central part; one first floor window is blind.
INTERIOR:
ogee stop-chamfered main ceiling beams; large back-to-back fireplaces; horizontal
sliding sash to rear south-east is said to have date "1766" inscribed on it;
dog-leg staircase with turned balusters. A three-bay brick outbuilding adjoins
to rear of north-west bay; two levels; three-course band with central cogged
course between levels; single-course band at eaves level of north-east end.
Main south-east elevation has a 3-light casement, a square light and a through
archway adjacent to the house; upper level has a 2-light casement, a rectangular
light and a central door approached by external steps (BoE, p 209).
Listing NGR: SO6418971278
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149279
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 209
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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