Salwarpe Court
SALWARPE COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1350242
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Salwarpe Court
- Statutory Address:
- SALWARPE COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1350242
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Salwarpe Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- SALWARPE COURT
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:
- SALWARPE COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Salwarpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 87558 62089
Details
SO 86 SE SALWARPE CP SALWARPE
4/235 Salwarpe Court
29.12.52 GV II*
Manor house, now house. c1580 rebuilding of earlier structure with mid-C19 alterations. Timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill, brick replacement walling and additions, plain tiled roofs, hipped at east end. Medieval plan; main range on west/east axis with hall of two framed bays, through-passage bay and two service bays at east end and solar cross-wing of two framed bays, possibly reduced from three bays, at west end; upper bay of hall has a south single bay extension which lies flush with the pro- jecting cross-wing gable end, and the through-passage bay has a gabled porch wing; large external brick chimney with tiled offsets and star-shaped shafts at east gable end; other chimneys to main ridge and rear have similar shafts but they are C19. Two storeys. Framing: two rows of close-set vertical studding to each storey; cross-wing and hall wing gable ends have collar- and-tie-beam trusses with queen struts; the first floor of the cross-wing and the hall wing are jettied on curved brackets to the south elevation; the first floor of the porch wing is also jettied with a moulded bressummer carried on moulded brackets and the uppermost row of panels project still further on a coved jetty. South front elevation: windows are all C19; hall and upper service bay have 4- and 5-light wood mullioned windows with transoms, one to each bay on both floors; porch has a wide plank and battened door flanked by moulded timber posts, a 4-light mullion and transom window on the first floor and enriched bargeboards; lower service bay has two cross-casements on each floor; cross-wing gable end has a 4-light ground floor casement and a 6-light first floor casement and a door to the lower right side. Interior,: roof and main structure, including first floor and ceilings (at wall-plate level throughout) are of one build; roof structure has collar-and-tie-beam trusses with raking struts and a single row of trenched purlins. Fireplaces and fittings all altered in C19. The house was the seat of the Talbot family. The medieval features such as the plan, jetty construction and purlin/ principal jointing system were probably all inherited from the earlier structure on the site.
Listing NGR: SO8755862089
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148131
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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