Charlton House Garden House Ludford House St Giles House is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. A Medieval Residential. 2 related planning applications.

Charlton House Garden House Ludford House St Giles House

WRENN ID
crooked-courtyard-grain
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Country
England
Date first listed
15 November 1954
Type
Residential
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

This large house, formerly known as Ludford House, exhibits a complex history with origins in the late medieval period, followed by significant development in the 16th and 17th centuries. It has undergone substantial alterations and restoration during the 19th and 20th centuries and is now divided into separate dwellings.

St Giles House, the northeast front, is constructed of rubble with a timber-frame and brick to the first floor, topped with a slate roof. It features various stacks, some with brick superstructures on stone bases, including a spur-buttressed stack to the rear. The fenestration is irregular, featuring a large bay with a stone mullion and transom to the ground floor and wood casements to the first floor, all under a jettied gable. A jettied porch bay on the right has enriched bargeboards over a recessed plank door within a moulded stone case. A wing to the left is of rubble with buttressed gables, and another timber-framed wing is present. Charlton House, the northwest front, consists of a rubble wing with stone mullion and transom lights, incorporating early 19th-century sash windows and 20th-century casements, with brick stacks.

Ludford House displays a front buttressed by four massive rubble stacks with brick superstructures. Various windows are set under stone drip-courses, with a plank door and openings, some blocked, within segmental arches. A rubble wing to the right has a timber-frame and brick to the first floor, featuring various lights and casements, and a chamfered stone four-centred arch with panelled double doors leading to a courtyard passage. A courtyard range, now housing dwellings, is timber-framed and brick on a rubble base. The main southeast front is timber-framed with a mid-19th century iron balcony over a 20th-century stone porch featuring Ionic pilasters. Above the balcony is a restored gable. To the left is a projecting timber-frame gable wing, followed by a further rubble wing. A 17th-century cottage serves as an addition–the Garden House. The building features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.

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