Jackfield Tile Museum Front Block
JACKFIELD TILE MUSEUM FRONT BLOCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367609
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Jackfield Tile Museum Front Block
- Statutory Address:
- JACKFIELD TILE MUSEUM FRONT BLOCK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367609
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Jackfield Tile Museum Front Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- JACKFIELD TILE MUSEUM FRONT BLOCK
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:
- JACKFIELD TILE MUSEUM FRONT BLOCK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Broseley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 68637 02976
Details
The entry for:
SJ 60 SE JACKFIELD JACKFIELD
9/274 Jackfield Tile Museum, front block
II
The entry shall be amended to read as follows:-
SJ 60 NE BROSELEY JACKFIELD
9/274 Jackfield Tile Museum front block
II* (star)
Front block of tile factory, now museum. 1874 by Charles Lynam for Craven Dunnill Tile Company. English garden wall bond plum brick with red brick dressings; gabled plain tile roofs; brick end and ridge stacks. L-plan with rear left wing and tower set at angle between wings. Front block of 2-storey. 3-window range. Iron lintel over central through-entry with decorative wrought- iron panels to double doors. Stone impost band links 3-pointed- arched windows with decorative tile tympanae over glazing-bar casements to ground floor and first-floor 4-pane sashes set in two gabled dormers flanking 2-light geometrical-style window set in larger gabled dormer over entrance; segmental-arched 4-pane sash to first-floor on right. Tower, which has lost spire, has pointed-arched 2-light sashes with similar tympanae. Rear wing has geometrical windows to front of 2-storey, 7-window range with pilaster buttresses dividing similar-pointed-arched windows with glazing-bar casements over segmental-arched casements to ground floor. Segmental-arched sashes and casements to rear. Interior: decorative tile dado and mosaic floor to stair hall with turned balusters to open-well staircase; braced open timber roofs to first-floor showrooms and drawing office, off which open two small rooms with decorative tile walling. Built to house various offices, including the first floor Drawing Offices where tiles were designed, and a showroom where the public could see the products of the Craven Dunnill works, one of the major Victorian tile factories; the ground-floor of the rear wing was used as a warehouse.
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The following building shall be included:
SJ 60 SE BROSELEY JACKFIELD
Jackfield Tile Museum, 9/274 front block
II
Front block of tile factory, now museum. 1874 by Charles Lynam for Craven Dunnill Tile Company. English garden wall bond plum brick with red brick dressings; gabled plain tile roofs; brick end and ridge stacks. L-plan with rear left wing and tower set at angle between wings. Front block of 2-storey, 3-window range. Iron lintel over central through-entry with decorative wrought- iron panels to double doors. Stone impost band links 3 pointed- arched windows with decorative tile tympanae over glazing-bar casements to ground floor and first-floor 4-pane sashes set in two gabled dormers flanking 2-light geometrical-style window set in larger gabled dormer over entrance; segmental-arched 4-pane sash to first-floor on right. Tower, which has lost spire, has pointed-arched 2-light sashes with similar tympanae. Rear wing has geometrical windows to front of 2-storey, 7-window range with pilaster buttresses dividing similar-pointed-arched windows with glazing-bar casements over segmental-arched casements to ground floor. Segmental-arched sashes and casements to rear. Interior: decorative tile dado and mosaic floor to stair hall with turned balusters to open-well staircase; braced open timber roofs to first-floor showrooms and drawing office, off which open two small rooms with decorative tile walling. Built to house various offices, including the 1st floor Drawing Office where tiles were designed, and a showroom where the public could see the products of the Craven Dunnill works, one of the major Victorian tile factories; the ground-floor of the rear wing was used as a warehouse. Buildings attached to rear not of special architectur or historic interest.
Listing NGR: SJ6863702976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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