TOWER AT NGR SJ 41066 34863

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366572
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: TOWER AT NGR SJ 41066 34863
Statutory Address:: TOWER AT NGR SJ 41066 34863

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366572
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: TOWER AT NGR SJ 41066 34863
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER AT NGR SJ 41066 34863

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOWER AT NGR SJ 41066 34863

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Welshampton and Lyneal
National Grid Reference:: SJ4107034865

Details

SJ 4034-4134 SJ 41066 34863 18/141

ELLESMERE RURAL C.P. OTELEY Tower at N.G.R. SJ 41066 34863

GV II

Tower. Circa 1826 to 1842 for Charles Kynaston Mainwaring. Yellow sandstone ashlar with red sandstone dressings; machine tile broached spire with richly ornamented wrought-iron weathervane. Venetian style. Rectangular section to bottom stage has decorative gable above cusped 2- light window with bracketed stone balcony beneath to south side. Pointed doorway to east side. Corbelled stone balcony with pierced trefoils to balustrade all round above 2-light window, supports upper stage which has gabled octagonal top with narrow pointed windows to cardinal faces; stepped chamfered projections to sides between. Charles Kynaston Mainwaring was a keen amateur gardener and he travelled extensively on the continent. It is believed that he was personally responsible for much of the design of the garden at Oteley and for the features therein. His house, Oteley Park, built for him in an Elizabethan style on the site of an earlier building between 1826 and 1830 and extended in 1842 was demolished c.1960. B.O.E. p. 226; Peter Reid, Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses, Vol. II (1980)p p. 106-7 ; Francis Leach, The Country Seats of Shropshire (1891), pp.19-23; Mrs. Frances Stackhouse Acton, Castles and Did Mansions of Shropshire (1868), p.58.

Listing NGR: SJ4107034865

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 260841
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Leach, F, The County Seats of Shropshire, (1891), 19-23
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 226
Stackhouse Acton, F, The Castles and Old Mansions of Shropshire, (1868), 58
Reid, P, 'Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses' in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, , Vol. 2, (1980), 106-7

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.