Foresters House
FORESTERS HOUSE, UPPER MILLICHOPE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383368
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Foresters House
- Statutory Address:
- FORESTERS HOUSE, UPPER MILLICHOPE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383368
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Foresters House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORESTERS HOUSE, UPPER MILLICHOPE
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:
- FORESTERS HOUSE, UPPER MILLICHOPE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Munslow
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 52098 89304
Details
MUNSLOW
SO58NW UPPER MILLICHOPE
1312-1/11/178 Forester's House
12/11/54
(Formerly Listed as:
EATON UNDER HEYWOOD
Forester's House, Upper Millichope)
II*
House. Reputed to have been the house of the King's forester
of the Long Forest. c1280, with C16 alterations and C18
extension wing. Stone rubble walls with dressed quoins and
moulded plinth, 2 metres thick at the base and tapering. Brick
and coursed rubble later house extension. A rectangular block
with gabled ends. The gable trusses are square panelled
timber-framed, with painted rendered brick infill panels and
central timber mullioned window. Plain-tile roof replacing
thatch in early C20. C17 integral stone rubble eaves stack on
east side.
EXTERIOR: north-west side partly rebuilt. Central doorway with
rebuilt round-arched opening with ball-flower decoration and
recessed boarded door: C20 casement to right set in moulded
ashlar segmental-arched opening.
North-east gable-end and south-east side each have single
window in stone jambs with roll moulding and fillet, scalloped
bases and capitals, with single mullion, that to the
north-east with roll-moulded stone shaft, the south-east
window mullion is timber.
Small C13 window on north-east side at lower level.
South-west gable-end: 3 staggered C13 staircase slit openings
to left. 2 wood casements to ground-floor right, blocked C16
3-light wood mullion window above stone-blocked C13 opening at
first-floor right (probably the original entrance).
An C18 2-storey house with gabled and hipped tiled roof
attached on south-east side to right: south-west face of brick
on rubble plinth with brick dentil course eaves, axial brick
ridge stack, 3-window range with brick segmental-arch lintels,
central boarded door under slate gabled open porch; other
faces of coursed rubble with flat lintel openings. All windows
are C20 multi-pane casements.
INTERIOR: lower floor divided with C17 partitions, C13
large-section first-floor joists reset in C17; first-floor
hall with C17 square-framed partition incorporating 3
low-arched door-heads, C13 mullion windows with flanking
internal seats, C13 partly blocked corner winder stair built
into the wall thickness, later C17 winding stair, C17 attic
floor and 3-bay triple-purlin roof.
(Architects Journal: Wood ME: C13 Domestic Architecture in
England: 1950-).
Listing NGR: SO5209889304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483786
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood, M E, Archaeological Journal Supplement in Thirteenth Century Domestic Architecture in England, (1950)
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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