Tickenhill

SO 7875 SW BEWDLEY CP PARK LANE (east side)

12/193 (formerly listed as Tickenhill Manor) 22.4.50 GV II*

Royal manor house, now house. C15, partly demolished and rebuilt in 1738, with some late C20 alterations. L-plan, main range containing four C15 framed bays extending to west, later addition extending to south. Timber- frame clad in brick, tile roof. Two storeys, brick coped verges, stone coped parapet, wing projecting to right, blind; nine windows: boxed glazing bar sashes under rubbed brick heads with keystones; ground floor: central entrance has a pilastered wooden doorcase with pediment, door of eight raised and fielded panels. Interior: C18 open well staircase with ramped hand rail and turned balusters. Timber-framing exposed in a number of rooms, close-studded walls, an original window visible at east end on first floor (now internal); roof has trusses with arch-braced collars. (VCH 4, pp 300 - 301; BoE p 87; J R Burton, 1883, A History of Bewdley; with concise accounts of some neighbouring parishes, p 42).

Listing NGR: SO7847275094