The Hayes
THE HAYES, MOUNT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367338
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Hayes
- Statutory Address:
- THE HAYES, MOUNT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367338
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Hayes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HAYES, MOUNT ROAD
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:
- THE HAYES, MOUNT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 28083 30246
Details
SJ 2830-2930 OSWESTRY C.P. MOUNT ROAD (south-west side)
11/88 The Hayes 10.9.51
GV II*
Hunting lodge, now house. Mid-C17 with later additions and alterations. Regularly coursed sandstone rubble, slate roof with coped verges on stone kneelers and ball finials to gables. Cruciform plan with late C19 addition (re-roofed in late C20) in angle between right and rear gables. 2 storeys and attics, moulded eaves cornice; cellars beneath chamfered plinth; mullioned windows to cellar with cross-windows to front and rear gables; right gable has 3-light mullioned and transomed windows to ground and first floors and cross-window to attic; front gable: double-chamfered cross-windows to left and right of door on both floors with one in centre to attic; four-centred arched -doorway, approached by flight of 5 steps, has enriched spandrels and moulded label, nail-studded door with scrolled strap hinges, original knocker and lock; 2-storey canted bay to left gable with 7-light mullioned and transomed windows on each floor probably a later C17 addition; brick segmental-headed doorway to rear gable (left side) and flat-headed doorway to left gable (rear side), latter converted from mullioned window lighting cellar; prominent central ridge stack with 10 attached octagonal brick shafts now roughcast. C19 addition has apparently C17 mullioned and cross-windows, presumably moved out from rear and right gables when addition was built. Interior: mid-C17 oak rectangular panelling in main ground- and first-floor rooms, some with decorative carving; moulded stone fireplace with four-centred arch to ground-floor room of left gable, fireplace to other side of stack (in centre of house) infilled but has richly carved Jacobean overmantel with grotesque human figures; date "D/RM/1656" on overmantel to fireplace in main first-floor room; open-well staircase rising from ground floor to attic looks C19 but is probably in position of original staircase; several C17 plank doors with C19 cast-iron grates to some of the fireplaces. B.O.E. pp. 146-7: Trans. Salop. Arch. Soc. Vol. LVI, Pt. III (1960) pp. 295-307.
Listing NGR: SJ2808730246
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255561
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 146-7
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society in Part 3, Vol. 56, (1960), 295-307
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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