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Buildings appearing on the register of English Heritage for the Parish of Madeley - page two of three.
House
C1700
Good red brick house with rusticated stone quoins, parapet, moulded cornice,
string course and plain tile hipped roof. Three-storeys. Four bays. Sashes
with glazing bars, mostly blind, gauged flat arches with keystones.
Central doorway also with flat arch and with moulded keystone and fine
shell-hood on carved brackets. Square on plan, the left and right hand returns
3 bays. Large brick chimney stacks. John Fletcher lived here from 1776-85.
Interior: some exposed timber-framed internal walls. Full height staircase with
moulded string and handrail, square newels and moulded balusters.
Timber Framed House
1621
Said to have been built c1621 by Francis Woolfe, but much altered. Circa early
C17 north-west wing partly timber-framed, most roughcast, but with some timber
framing exposed in gable on west side; 3-storeys, one bay gabled and with large
side stack with diagonal brick stafts. Circa early C18 stuccoed wing to east
with steeply pitched plain tile roof with gabled ends and parapet; 2-storeys
and attic, 5 bays, first floor modern fenestration, ground floor 3 stone
mullion/transom windows and doorcase with panelled pilasters and entablature
with pediment. Venetian window in gable end. Central brick stack. Two C18
ashlar wings at rear forming U-shaped plan; Venetian windows on the east side
and gable end. The east side also has some late C19 Gothic windows.Interior:
chamfered ceiling beams in the north-west wing. Early C19 geometric stone
staircase in rear of main range. Plaster ceiling frieze and cornice in ground
floor room (No. 1 Court). Former provisional list description "Interior stated
to have cast-iron frieze in lounge, and priest's hole".
House
C17/C18
With later alterations. Tall ashlar cottage with tile roof and brick gables
added in C19. Two-storeys. Mostly modern casements, some blocked windows.
Salient feature is the large exposed chimney breast with off-sets.
House
Early C18
Red brick house. Plain tile roof with brick parapet gable ends and heavy
modillion eaves cornice. Two-storeys and attic. Five bays. First floor sashes
without glazing bars, flat gauged brick arches with fluted keyblocks. Ground
floor late C19 square bay windows and large central porch.
House
Early to Mid C19
Ashlar pair of houses with buff-coloured brick front. Plain tile roof with
gabled ends and brick dentil eaves. Three storeys. Six window range. Sashes
with glazing bars under flat voussoired arches with keyblocks. Two pilastered
doorways with entablatures and panelled doors. No. 39 has circa early C20
ground floor bay window.
Church
1841
Large chapel in classical style. Buff-coloured brick with painted stone
dressings. Three-bay pedimented front with giant brick pilasters and round
arched windows in recesses. Left and right pilastered and pedimented doorways.
Plaque in pediment inscribed "Wesleyan Chapel MDCCCXCI" with circular opening
above with cast-iron grille. Five-bay side with round arched windows in recesses.
All cast-iron multi-pane window frames. Slate roof. Including forecourt area
railings on dwarf brick wall with piers and gates at centre. Interior: panelled
gallery on 3 sides, on slim fluted cast-iron columns.
House
C18
Red brick house. Steeply pitched plain tile roof with gabled ends and painted
stone coved eaves. Two-storeys and attic, 2 window range. Modern casements in
original openings with foussoired heads with keyblocks. Modern central doorway.
Two flat roof dormers with sashes with glazing bars. Central brick chimney stack.
House
C19
Buff-coloured brick house at right angles to road. Slate hipped roof with cornice
and blocking course. Two-storeys. Three bays. Centre recessed, and left and right
bowed. Sashes with glazing bars, panelled lintels and bend at first floor sill
level. Left and right had sashes bowed. Central panelled door and porch with
Tuscan columns and entablature.Left hand return (north side) facing road, large
late C19 shop front with heavy entablature with modillion cornice, wreaths in
the frieze and pairs of console brackets with garlands and with lions above.
Shop
Early to Mid C19
Brick. Tiled roof with gabled ends. Two-storey 3 window range. Sashes with
glazing bars and voussoired lintels with keyblocks. Contemporary double-fronted
shop with pilasters, entablature and glazing bars. The central doorway of shop
has late C19 wooden porch. Right-hand elliptical head doorway with double doors.
Timber Framed House
Early C17
No.s 61 & 62 circa early C17 timber-framed cottage range with pilastered
infill panels, on sandstone and brick plinth. Gabled to right. One storey and
attic, two window range, modern 3-light mullion windows. Gabled dormer to left.
Central brick stack. Steeply pitched plain tile roof with gabled ends.No.s 63,
64 & 65 early/mid C19 brick addition to left, lower pitched tile roof.
Two-storeys, 2 windows. Sashes with glazing bars, ground floor mid C19
pilastered shop front with entablature, square bay and doorway with rectangular
fanlight. C18 sandstone and brick wing at rear.
Late C18
House and warehouse (No. 66) with associated cottages (No. 66) attached to rear.
Late C18, early and mid C19. Brick (the street range stuccoed); tile gable-end
roofs. 2 and 3 storeys. The buildings form an interesting functional group
consisting of the principal house facing the street (possibly late C18) with
later rear wing. This came to be occupied (by the mid C19) by a grocer who added
the warehouse and cottages to accommodate his labourers' families. Associated
buildings (including a curing-house) have been demolished. Front range:
3 storeys, regular 3-window range, the centre slightly advanced. 9-pane hornless
sashes in reveals under voussoired heads with key blocks to upper floors;
C19 entablature over C20 shop window. Modillion eaves. External end stacks.
C20 windows and dormer to rear wing. Warehouse with doorway (pilasters, panelled
reveals and flat canopy), remains of loading gear, 2nd floor goods hatch, window
to each of the lower floors with elliptical arches (casements renewed), all
under gable with corbelled brick kneelers. Simple cottages to rear (formerly a
pair of two builds): renewed casements under window arches (flat to 1st floor,
elliptical to ground; ( blocked door to left, another doorway to right with C20
lean-to glazed porch (of no interest). Rear with 2 small windows, simple iron
casements. Ridge and external end stack.
House
Early to Mid C19
Red brick house. Hipped tile roof. Parapet with moulded stone coping.
Two-storeys. Three bays. Large sashes with glazing bars. Moulded segmental
arch lintels (cast iron?) with keyblocks. Central porch with pilasters and
Tuscan columns in antis with heavy entablature. Fielded panel door set back with
architraves and cornice on brackets. Brick end stacks.
Watermill
C17
Built by Sir Basil Brooke of Madeley Court. Red brick with stone dressings,
stone quoins, mullion windows and lintels. Two-storeys, about 5 bays. Three
2-light windows to first floor loft above various ground floor openings.
Steeply pitched gable ended roof clad in corrugated iron, the centre part of
roof has collapsed. Ashlar and brick gabled wings at rear. The mill pool has
been covered by the large spoil tip to the south-west.
Garden Wall
Late C17
Red brick garden wall on 3 sides of rectangular enclosure. Breached in places
especially on south-west side, and top courses of brickwork have fallen.
At north-east corner a stone doorway with moulded architrave and semi-circular
pediment.
Garden Wall
C17/C18
Ashlar and brick walls with saddle-back coping, on 3 sides rectangular garden
enclosure adjoining south-east of Madeley Court.
Gatehouse
Late C16 or Early C17
Ashlar with tiled roofs. Two octagonal 2-storey and attic turrets flanking
round-arched carriageway (blocked) with shaped gable over first floor mullion
window above the carriageway. The turrets have pyramidal roof with moulded
stone cornices, moulded strings and entablature over ground storey, and
circular stone medallions.
House
C16
Mainly C16 with traces of C13 fabric. Built as a grange to Wenlock Priory.
At the dissolution bought in 1553 by Sir Robert Brooke, Speak in the House
of Commons, and stayed in the Brooke family until early C18. Tenanted by
Abraham Darby I from 1709 until his death. Large ashlar house, at time of
survey (1980) being restored. Tiled roofs with gables with parapet coping.
Large brick shafted chimney stacks. Two-storeys and attics. L-shaped on plan,
originally on west wing as well. The north-west hall range extensively rebuilt.
Gabled stone attic windows with finials. Large stone mullion transom windows
with dripmoulds. Early C17 stone porch to right hand of hall range with moulded
round arch and ornate gables with volutes, pediments and strapwork foliage
decoration. The east wing contains large C16 timber newel staircase and rooms
with bolection moulded panelling and chimney piece.
Sundial
C17
Astronomical sundial surmounted on squat moulded columns on base. Large stone
cuboid block about 4ft square, with domed top and hemispherical recessed sides
with other small triangular, rectangular and various shaped recesses for dials.
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