South Muskham Prebend
SOUTH MUSKHAM PREBEND, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374854
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1961
- List Entry Name:
- South Muskham Prebend
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH MUSKHAM PREBEND, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374854
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- South Muskham Prebend
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH MUSKHAM PREBEND, CHURCH STREET
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:
- SOUTH MUSKHAM PREBEND, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 70349 53776
Details
SOUTHWELL
CHURCH STREET SK7053 1919-0/11/47 (North side) 11/09/61 South Muskham Prebend (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET No.37)
GV II
Former prebendal house of South Muskham, now an old people's home. Mid C15, remodelled early C18 and c1800. Rear addition in sympathetic style, 1954. Formerly timber framed, now brick, rendered and colourwashed, with stone dressings and slate and concrete tile roofs. 2 storeys, 1-4-1 windows, H-plan preserving the form of central hall with parlour and service wings. Small plinth to front, coped gables, 2 external side wall stacks, 2 ridge stacks. Windows are glazing bar sashes. Recessed centre has a full width early C19 verandah with cast iron posts and crest. Beneath it, C20 glazed door to left, and 3 windows to its right. Beyond, in each wing, a single window. Interior has in the left wing a high quality C15 collar purlin roof with castellated king posts, and remains of a timber framed gable. Central hallway has an early C18 cantilevered stair with moulded string and fluted and twisted balusters and scrolled handrail. Rearranged C17 panelling with chip carving and 4 marquetry panels. Right wing has on the first floor an Adam style wooden fireplace with corniced stone mantelshelf. The collar purlin roof is unusual in the east midlands. The house was leased from the late C18 by John Thomas Becher, builder of Hill House (qv), and remained in the Becher family almost continuously till 1916. This building is one of the 9 remaining prebendal houses formerly attached to Southwell Minster. (Norman Summers: A Prospect of Southwell: London: 1974-: 90-93).
Listing NGR: SK7034953776
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 242338
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Summers, N, A Prospect of Southwell, (1974), 90-93
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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