PELL WALL STABLES

PELL WALL STABLES, NEWPORT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366844
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: PELL WALL STABLES
Statutory Address:: PELL WALL STABLES, NEWPORT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366844
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: PELL WALL STABLES
Statutory Address 1:: PELL WALL STABLES, NEWPORT ROAD

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:: PELL WALL STABLES, NEWPORT ROAD

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sutton upon Tern
National Grid Reference:: SJ 67755 32811

Details

SUTTON UPON TERN C.P. NEWPORT ROAD (west SJ 63 SE side) 3/124 Pell Wall Stables - - II

Stable block and coach house. Dated 1902, by Fred Lynde of Manchester for James Munro Walker. Orange brick with grey sandstone dressings (some painted). Planted timbers to first floors with plastered panels. Hipped slate roofs. Square courtyard plan. South-east (entrance) front: one storey. Chamfered blue brick plinth, battered buttresses with chamfered offsets, and roof with 2 pairs of louvered triangular dormer-ventilators and lourvered gablets at each end. 4:1:4 bays; 3-light stone mullioned windows with chamfered top and bottom reveals. Projecting central entrance with battered sides, round archway with impost bands and keystone, and parapeted gable with coping and lozenge-shaped datestone in apex: "JMW/1902". One remaining boarded gate with ramped top rail. Barrel-vaulted archway with lattice-ribbed soffit. Central octagonal wooden cuploa consisting of battered base with fishscale tile hanging, round arches with impost blocks and keys, ramped balustrade with lozenge shaped balusters, dentil and moulded wooden cornice and copper-covered ogee dome with wrought- iron weathervane. Clocks to front and rear. Courtyard; rear of front range: continuously overhanging eaves with cast-iron brackets and central open gable with brattished cambered collar and planted timbers in apex. 3 + 3 stable doors with 3-part rectangular overlights. Side ranges: one storey and attic. Small-paned wooden cross windows and stable doors with 3-part rectangular over- lights. Pairs of gabled semi dormers with 3-light wooden casements and brattished cambered collars. Rear (coach house) range: 2 storeys. Central square wooden dovecote consisting of base with fishscale tile hanging and top with 2 tiers of openings and gable to each face with planted timbers. 2 brick stacks. 7 first-floor 2-light wooden casements. 5 ground-floor former carriage openings with brick piers, right-hand pair still retaining boarded doors but 3 to left blocked with small-paned wooden cross windows flanking stable door with overlight. Though passageway off-centre to right with window to its right. Continuous glazed verandah with central cast-iron column. Interiors of side ranges with loose boxes. A painted inscription on the wall within the entrance archway reads: "ERECTED MAY-NOV. 1902/FRED.C.LYNDE.A.M.INST.C.E./ARCHITECT/MANCHESTER THOMAS BROAD LIMITED/CONTRACTORS/GT.MALVERN." James Munro Walker bought Pell Wall c.1901. These buildings are thought locally to have been built as racing stables. The 1838 tithe map shows earlier structures on the site of the present buildings. Marcus Binney, Our Vanishing Heritage. p.34; Tithe map of Drayton- in-Hales Parish (1838), Shropshire Records Office, 2885/4-5.

Listing NGR: SJ6775532811

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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.