Conservatory at Sunnycroft
CONSERVATORY AT SUNNYCROFT, HOLYHEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392286
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-2007
- List Entry Name:
- Conservatory at Sunnycroft
- Statutory Address:
- CONSERVATORY AT SUNNYCROFT, HOLYHEAD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392286
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-2007
- List Entry Name:
- Conservatory at Sunnycroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONSERVATORY AT SUNNYCROFT, HOLYHEAD ROAD
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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:
- CONSERVATORY AT SUNNYCROFT, HOLYHEAD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wellington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 65157 10987
Details
WELLINGTON
1126/0/10065 HOLYHEAD ROAD 29-OCT-07 Conservatory at Sunnycroft
GV II A conservatory or specimen house, built circa 1900, by R Halliday & Co.
MATERIALS: Painted wood and glass with red brick lower walls, stained glass panels and wrought iron decoration.
PLAN: The building is rectangular on plan and has a hipped roof with raised lantern to the centre and a canted bay containing the door to the centre of the south front.
EXTERIOR: Above the brick walling the body is divided by wooden uprights into four panels of glazing to the east and west sides and six to the north, with a canted bay to the centre of the south side. The upper lights have stained glass panels. There is a lantern section and this and the canted bay have decorative iron cresting to their ridges.
INTERIOR: There is tiling to the centre of the floor and piled rockwork to the sides, indicating the former use of these beds for growing ferns. Above these, staging has been erected to support plant pots, supported on cast iron columns.
HISTORY: Sunnycroft was built in two phases. A relatively modest villa was built in 1880 for JG Wackrill, the founder of the Shropshire Brewery in the nearby town of Wellington. At ground floor level this house comprised the rooms which are now the drawing room, smoke room, morning room, staircase hall, kitchen and pantry and larder. In the 1890s it was bought by Mary Jane Slaney, widow of a wine and spirit merchant and in 1899 the house was extended by adding the present dining room, billiard room, entrance hall and porch as well as the gentlemen's cloakroom and the lavatory and store adjacent to the kitchen. The conservatory or specimen house appears to have been added at this time.
SOURCE: Sunnycroft, National Trust guidebook, 2000.
The conservatory at Sunnycroft is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* An unusually complete survival of a C19 glasshouse by the prestigious firm of R Halliday & Co. * Group value with the nearby house, Sunnycroft. * An important part of a remarkably intact C19 suburban estate which retains a particularly complete range of outbuildings.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 503620
- 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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