MANSION HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1366875
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: MANSION HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANSION HOUSE

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Date:: 2000-09-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1366875
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: MANSION HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANSION HOUSE

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MANSION HOUSE

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ford
National Grid Reference:: SJ 41171 13850

Details

SJ 4013-4113; 13/58

FORD C.P., FORD, Mansion House

29.01.52

GV

II*

House, latterly farmhouse. Dated 1779 (rainwater head), for Francis Waring; early C17 core with early C18 alterations and additions. Brick with grey sandstone dressings; timber-framed core; 2-span slate roof, hipped with graded slates to front. Double-range L-plan; C17 range of three framed bays with early C18 wing at rear and parallel 1779 range to front. Two storeys and two storeys and attic. Chamfered stone plinth, first-floor cill band, frieze and moulded cornice, parapet with moulded stone coping, and triangular pediment over centre three bays with stone shield and flanking husk festoons in tympanum; pair of brick lateral stacks at rear of front range, brick ridge stack off-centre to left of rear range and integral brick end stack to rear wing. 3:3:3 bays, centre slightly projecting; glazing bar sashes with stone cills and gauged-brick heads, central first-floor window with fluted scrolled cill brackets, lugged moulded architrave, and stepped triple keystone with oval paterae; three steps up to 6-panelled door (lower flush) with moulded architrave, and doorcase consisting of unfluted three quarter columns with acanthus capitals, fluted frieze with amphorae over columns, and triangular pediment. 4-bay left-hand return front with blind windows and central C18 downpipe with dated moulded rainwater head; 2-bay right-hand return front with segmental-headed blind windows. Rear gable end has stone-coped parapeted gable-end to right with blind circular window in tympanum and three C17 timber-framed dormers in valley with 2-light leaded casements, moulded architraves and cornices, and triangular pedimented gables. Rear wing with dentilbrick eaves cornice and stone-coped parapeted gable end.

INTERIOR: front range with complete late C18 decoration: entrance hall has cantilevered 4-flight square-well staircase with open string, shaped brackets, two stick balusters to each tread, turned newel posts, moulded ramped handrail and curtail with columnar newel post and wreathed handrail; egg and dart enriched cornices with dentils and alternating paterae on soffit; first-floor ceiling: two delicate plaster roses with husk garlands; left-hand ground-floor room: with moulded dado rail, frieze with anthemion and palmette ornament and enriched plaster cornice; fireplace has panelled pilasters with husk garlands, frieze with acanthus and palmette ornament and central urn relief, and moulded cornice with bead and reel enrichment; right-hand ground-floor room: moulded dado rail, fluted frieze and dentil cornice; fireplace has marble surround with husk ornament, fluted frieze with central urn relief, and enriched cornice. Bedrooms with moulded cornices, and fireplaces with friezes and cornices. C18 six-panelled doors with panelled reveals and moulded architraves; panelled window reveals. C17 rear range has roof with collar and tie-beam trusses and pairs of purlins; C17 timber-framed square-panelled cross-walls and chamfered beams with ogee stops; ground floor rear room with C17 panelling with fluted frieze and the first floor at rear has early C18 raised and fielded panelling and doors; former kitchen in left-hand ground-floor rear room has large open fireplace with early C19 surround consisting of panelled sides and moulded cornice, and spit rack above; early C18 kitchen wing at rear has large depressed-arched open fireplace with early C19 surround consisting of Gothic-panelled sides, moulded cornice, and flanking arched recess.

V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p.226; B.O.E., p.131; H. E. Forrest, FLS, Some old Shropshire houses and their owners (1924), pp.58-60.

Listing NGR: SJ4117113850

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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.