Betton Strange Hall (Flats Numbers 1-18) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. Country house. 2 related planning applications.
Betton Strange Hall (Flats Numbers 1-18)
- WRENN ID
- lesser-hearth-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1986
- Type
- Country house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Betton Strange Hall is a country house, now divided into flats, dating from the mid-19th century with later 19th-century remodelling. It is built of painted render, imitating ashlar, with grey sandstone ashlar dressings, and has hipped slate roofs. The house has an irregular L-plan and was remodelled in a Queen Anne Revival style.
The building is two storeys and an attic, with projecting three-storey wings. A cill band is present on the wings, along with a stone and wooden dentil eaves cornice. There are five eaves dormers to the centre block, featuring wooden two-light casements with alternating segmental and triangular pediments. Similar dormers are found at the rear, also with triangular pediments. External brick stacks are visible at the front of the right-hand wing, while the centre block and left-hand block and service wing extending to the rear have four brick stacks each.
The facade has a 2:5:2 bay arrangement with four-pane and glazing bar sashes in moulded architraves; these are segmental-headed on the ground floor of the central five bays. There are two blank ground-floor bays to the right. A central pair of three-panelled doors with a glazed overlight and segmental head lead to the entrance. A late 19th-century, five-bay ashlar loggia is centrally positioned, featuring square end piers, Tuscan columns supporting a moulded cornice, and a panelled parapet with globe finials above the centre of each arch. A three-bay return front on the right has a two-storey canted hipped-roofed bay. The left-hand return front has a seven-bay arrangement, and at the rear is a late 19th-century square ashlar bay with a balcony above.
The interior was not inspected, but it is noted that the entrance hall has a late 19th-century three-bay screen leading to a staircase hall. The staircase hall contains a late 19th-century three-flight square well staircase with an open string, chamfered stick balusters, a wreathed and ramped moulded handrail, a curtail, and a fluted columnar newel post. A ground-floor room to the east has a late 19th-century round-arched fireplace.
The Church of St. Margaret, built in 1858, stands within the grounds and may be contemporary with the earliest parts of the house.
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