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List entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: COACH HOUSE AND STABLE BLOCK AT THE WODEHOUSE

List entry Number: 1277064

Location

COACH HOUSE AND STABLE BLOCK AT THE WODEHOUSE, WODEHOUSE LANE

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County	District	District Type	Parish
Staffordshire	South Staffordshire	District Authority	Wombourne

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II*

Date first listed: 27-Jun-1963

Date of most recent amendment: 18-Dec-1987

Legacy System Information

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System: LBS

UID: 407890

Asset Groupings

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List entry Description

Summary of Building

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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Details

WOMBOURNE C.P. WODEHOUSE LANE (south side) SO 89 SE 5/165 Coach house and stable block at The Wodehouse (formerly 27.6.63 listed as Coach House at the Wodehouse) GV TT* Coach house and stable block. Early C18 with late C19 alterations and internal remodelling. Red brick; plain tile roofs; C19 brick end stacks with star shaped shafts. 2 storeys with moulded eaves cornice. 1:3:3:3:1 bays, central pedimented break with first floor band, and 2 gabled crosswings with coped verges and draped vase finials at the corners. Mainly glazing bar sashes with gauged brick seg- mental arches and raised keys; crosswings each have a ground floor Venetian window and a niche in the gable, 2 gauged brick segmental carriage arches to central break with boarded doors; the flanking recesses each have a central C19 panelled door with moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and bracketed pediment, and above a segmental arched opening with moulded architrave and raised key, the left hand one is blocked, the right hand one has a part glazed 2-leaf door. Central cupola with semi-circular arched openings, ogee shaped dome and dragon weather vane. The inside return of each crosseing has a C19 panelled door with rectangular overlight and wedge shaped plaster lintel grooved as voussoirs, and raised key, and first floor keyed oculus. Interior. Some stable fittings survive including loose boxes anti hay racks. The northern half of the building was converted into a music room in the late C19 probably for T B Shaw-Hellier. V.C.H Vol XX (1984).

Listing NGR: SO8861693725

Selected Sources

1. Article  Reference - Author: William Page - Title: The Victoria History of the County of Stafford - Date: 1984 - Journal Title: The Victoria History of the Counties of England - Volume: 20

National Grid Reference: SO 88616 93725

Map

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