Betton Strange Hall (Flats Numbers 1-18)

Betton Strange Hall (Flats Numbers 1-18), Betton Strange

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366713
Date first listed:: 14-May-1986
List Entry Name:: Betton Strange Hall (Flats Numbers 1-18)
Statutory Address:: Betton Strange Hall (Flats Numbers 1-18), Betton Strange

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366713
Date first listed:: 14-May-1986
List Entry Name:: Betton Strange Hall (Flats Numbers 1-18)
Statutory Address 1:: Betton Strange Hall (Flats Numbers 1-18), Betton Strange

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Betton Strange Hall (Flats Numbers 1-18), Betton Strange

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Berrington
National Grid Reference:: SJ 50915 09316

Details

SJ 50 NW 3/53

BERRINGTON CP BETTON STRANGE Betton Strange Hall (Flats Nos.1-18)

Country house, now divided. Mid-C19 with late C19 remodelling. Painted render, lined as ashlar, with grey sandstone ashlar dressings; hipped slate roofs. Irregular L-plan; remodelled in a Queen Anne Revival style.

Two storeys and attic with projecting three storey wings. Second floor cill band to wings, stone and wooden dentil eaves cornice; five eaves dormers to centre block with wooden two-light; casements and alternating segmental and triangular pediments, and five eaves dormers to rear with triangular pediments; external brick stack to front of right-hand wing, four brick stacks to centre block, and four brick stacks to left-hand block and service wing extending to rear. 2:5:2 bays, four-pane and glazing bar sashes with moulded architraves, segmental-headed to ground-floor in central five bays; two blank ground-floor bays to right; central pair of three-panelled doors with glazed overlight under segmental head; central late C19 five bay ashlar loggia with square end piers, Tuscan columns supporting moulded cornice, and panelled parapet with globe finials above the centre of each arch. Three bay right-hand return front with two storey canted hipped-roofed bay, and seven bay left-hand return front; late C19 square ashlar bay with balcony above at rear.

Interior not inspected but noted as having entrance hall with late C19 three bay screen leading to staircase hall containing late C19 three-flight square well staircase with open string, chamfered stick balusters, wreathed and ramped moulded handrail, curtail, and fluted columnar newel post; ground floor room to east noted as having a late C19 round-arched fireplace.

The Church of St. Margaret (q.v.) of 1858 stands in the grounds and may be contemporary with the earliest parts of the house.

Listing NGR: SJ5091509316

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Legacy System number:: 259707
Legacy System:: LBS

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