The Hermitage
WESTBURY, SHREWSBURY AND ATCHAM, SHROPSHIRE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1461568
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage
- Statutory Address:
- WESTBURY, SHREWSBURY AND ATCHAM, SHROPSHIRE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1461568
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTBURY, SHREWSBURY AND ATCHAM, SHROPSHIRE
- Statutory Address 2:
- WESTBURY, SHROPSHIRE
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:
- WESTBURY, SHREWSBURY AND ATCHAM, SHROPSHIRE
- Statutory Address:
- WESTBURY, SHROPSHIRE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3554609501
Details
J 3509 WESTBURY C.P. WESTBURY
1101/18/124 The Hermitage
GV II
Farmhouse, latterly school, now house. Circa 1728 and extended c. 1736 incorporating probably
late C16 core; mid-to C19 alterations and additions. Red brick with some coursed yellow sandstone rubble rebuilding and additions at rear; slate roof 3-room plan with C19 additions at rear. 2 storeys over cellar. Dentil brick eaves cornice; brick ridge stack off-centre to left and integral brick end stack to right. Segmental-headed wooden casements with louvred shutters; 2 first-floor 2-light casements to right and pairs of ground-floor cross-casements flanking door with 6 flush panels (top 2 glazed) panelled reveals, moulded architrave; probably early timber porch with lattice sides, round archway, frieze with lozenge decoration, and triangular pedimented top; probably slightly later addition (or re-fronting- see straight joint) to left with first-floor 2-light casement and ground-floor cross-casement. Two C19 gabled wings at rear. Probably C18 and C19 rubble and timber-framed stable wing adjoining to west.
INTERIOR: remains of C16 house in centre room including chamfered beam and plain joists, blocked large open fireplace and blocked fire window. Probably C18 timber framed partition walls upstairs. The staircase rises from the entrance lobby.
SOURCE: C. Ryan, The Evolution of the Peasant House in Shropshire: Medieval-C1850. The Parish of Westbury unpublished thesis (October 1979) Manchester University , p. 110-111.
This building was removed from the list by virtue of the 6th amendment of the 41st list in error.
Listing NGR: SJ3554609497
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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