No 7, attached outbuilding and boundary walls is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1994. House, outbuilding. 6 related planning applications.
No 7, attached outbuilding and boundary walls
- WRENN ID
- endless-step-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1994
- Type
- House, outbuilding
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house with an attached outbuilding and boundary walls, dating to 1743, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, featuring dog-toothed eaves, brick gable stacks, and a plain-tiled roof. The house has a complex double pile plan, incorporating a two-story crosswing and an attached outbuilding at its southern end.
The west-facing elevation of the house is symmetrical, with three bays across two storeys and an attic. A gabled trellis-work porch shelters the central doorway, which features a four-panel door and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Stacked window openings flank the doorway; ground and first-floor windows have wedge lintels, projecting keyblocks, and plastered margins. The windows south of the doorway are three-light, while those to the north are two-light. A false two-light window sits above the doorway, bearing the inscription "J.M.B. 1743" and a floral motif. The window frames are wooden mullion and transom, incorporating metal casements. Gabled attic dormers with two-light casement frames are also present. The single-story outbuilding to the south contains low lofts, with a pitched roofed section adjoining the house, incorporating a domestic scullery. A lean-to coach house and stables are located at the south end, characterised by a tall monopitch roof, a tall stable doorway, a high-level stable window, and double coach house doors, along with a gabled loft doorway. A tall brick wall defines the street boundary, featuring 20th-century doors to the front of the outbuilding and a lower wall to the front of the house. The west-facing garden elevation shows a set-back gable to the north, altered in the 20th century. An advanced two-bay rear range has a three-light window beneath a segmental arched head on the ground floor, and a 20th-century bow window where an earlier doorway once stood. A two-light window with a flat head is on the first floor. The outbuilding includes a wide boarded door with a pegged frame and a three-light window serving the scullery.
The interior retains an undisturbed plan, with a hall and parlour at the front, and a kitchen, scullery, staircase, and pantry to the rear. An internal lobby is located within the hall bay, accessed through a four-panel door. The hall features a dado rail, some paneling, and Lincrusta wall covering, along with a 19th-century hearth and cast-iron grate. The kitchen to the rear has wide wall cupboards with panelled doors, and a kitchen range with an in-situ hearth crane set within a wide opening. The scullery retains an in-situ slop stone. A cellar has stone benches and a cooling slab. The stick baluster staircase has a cupboard with vertically sliding doors below. First and attic floor rooms have planked or four-panelled doors, almost all with 19th-century hearths and cast-iron grates.
Historically, the house was a farmhouse with associated outbuildings (now in separate ownership). The initials inscribed on the façade refer to Jane Beddard, a schoolmistress, who utilized part of the house as a schoolroom. The building is notable as an example of an 18th-century farmhouse within a rural settlement, where the original plan form and many original interior fittings remain.
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