Shakenhurst is a Grade II* listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1966. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Shakenhurst
- WRENN ID
- young-wattle-hazel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1966
- Type
- Country house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BAYTON CP - SO 67 SE
2/4 Shakenhurst
18.4.66
- II*
Country house in landscaped park. C17, remodelled 1798. Red brick with plain tiled roof behind parapet and massive brick end and ridge stacks. Three storeys with modillion eaves cornice to front elevation and dentilled eaves cornice at sides and rear. 1:3:1 bays; outer bays break forward and have full-height central bay windows; all windows have gauged flat heads, large keyblocks and stone sills; 15-pane sashes on ground floor, 12-pane sashes on first floor and 6-pane sashes on second floor; central porch has an open pediment on Ionic columns and half-glazed double doors. Interior: main rooms have moulded cornices and doorheads; hall occupies central three bays of ground floor and has a large stone fireplace with Corinthian columns and urn relief; C17 dog-leg oak staircase with three turned balusters per tread; C17 linenfold panelling with fishscale detail retained to rear ground floor similar to that of the choir stalls in the Church of St Bartholomew (qv). The house was the seat of the Wigley family. (BoE, p 76).
Listing NGR: SO6728272970
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