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Buildings appearing on the register of English Heritage for the Parish of Madeley - page one of three.
Commemorative Monument.
Date:1868.
Designed by John Johnson of London. Large Italianate red brick building with
painted stone dressings and hipped tile roof. Entablature with heavy cornice.
Two storeys. 1:5:1 bays. Left and right with brick pilasters. Round-arched
windows in pilastered round-arched recesses with panels below. The ground floor
has flat-headed 2-light windows. Stringcourse at first floor level. Large
central porch with heavy entablature on square piers.
Timber Framed Barn
C17
Timber-frame with red brick infill panels on stone rubble plinth. Long range
with plain tile roof with gabled ends. Modern fenestration. Half of the west
side to the road is brick faced. The east side has circa early C19 horse engine
house projecting on left with open semi-circular front with wooden posts on
stone plinth supporting roof.
Late C18
Stuccoed Ionic. Hipped tile roof. Parapet with coping, and quoin palisters.
Three storeys. Three bays. Sashes with glazing bars and voussoired lintels
with keyblocks. Single storey wing to left.
Church
1796
By Thomas Telford. Ashlar with hopped slate roof. Octagonal on plan.
Entablature with finials over the corners. Two tiers of windows with string
course between, round-arched windows above square windows. Tower projects at
ritual west end (north side), in 4 stages, rusticated bottom stage, pedimented
first stage with round arch window, clock face in third stage and round arched
bell opening in recess in top stage with bell finials over the corners of the
parapet. Square chancel added in 1910 at ritual east end (south) with large
Venetian window. Either side of this chancel the 2 upper windows are niches with
responds and containing kneeling figures with inscription below:- remains of
monument to the Brooke family of Madeley Hall. Interior: galleries on 3 sides
with 2 tiers of columns. In the churchyard several early C19 tombs of cast iron,
including those of 2 iron-plasters: William Balwin 1822; a large pedestal with
columns at the corners surmounted by sarcophagus. And R R Anstice 1853; arched
inscription panels flanked by attached columns with pediment over. Also a cast
iron tomb chest John Fletcher 1785 immediately east of church.
Churchyard
1796
Ashlar retaining wall to churchyard with 2 pairs of octagonal gate-piers at
each end; one at west end is missing.
Coach House
C18
Much altered. Long timber-framed range with red brick infill panels on sandstone
plinth. Plain tile roof with gabled ends. Three gables on road front, each with
C19 pointed arch window with cast-iron lattice grille. Cart entrance through
west end. East end has C18 brick coach house wing at right angles, with arcaded
east side with keystones and tablet with date 1765. Plaque on front of bar
states "King Charles II hid in this barn 5 September 1651". Used as a local market
in C18.
Coach House
C18
Red brick range with sandstone Ashlar ground floor and stone quoins. Plain
tile roof with stepped brick gable ends. Four segmental headed ground floor
doorways. Of the 4 first floor doorways 3 are blind. Four diamond-shaped
panels of ventilation holes. Brick dentil eaves course. Single storey wing
to the north.
National School
1841
Buff-coloured brick with stone dressings in Tudor style. Fish-scale tile roof
with gable ends with stone coping and kneelers. Moulded brick modillion cornice.
Two storeys. Three bays. Centre gabled and advanced with plaque in gable
inscribed "National School" and date and with plain shield above. Three-light
wood mullion windows in chamfered openings with stone dripmoulds; the top lights
have diamond panes. Central moulded brick 4-centred arch doorway with dripmould.
String course at first floor level. Brick stacks with diagonal shafts over end
gables.
Garden Wall
Late C18
High red brick garden wall with plain stone coping on 3 sides of garden.
Ramped up to higher south-east corner. Included for group value.
Garden Wall
C18
Sandstone Ashlar and coursed rubble wall with chamfered coping. Included for
group value.
Garden Wall
C18/C19
Sandstone Ashlar. High wall with chamfered coping. Follows curve or road.
Included for group value.
Gate Pier
C1700
Rusticated stone gatepiers painted, with moulded bases and caps and with ball
finials. The wrought iron gates are modern.
Building
C18
Small square red brick building. The pyramidal tile roof has collapsed.
Two-storeys. One bay sides. Ground floor open with arched entrance.
Sash window with glazing bars above. External stairs to first floor at
side.
House
C18
Red brick range of cottages. Plain tile roof, gabled at one end with stone
coping, and hipped at the other end. Moulded eaves cornice. Two-storeys and
attic. Five window range. Original 2-light casements with leaded panes, ground
floor in segmental-headed openings. Two plank doors with rectangular fanlights.
Brick string course at first floor level. Three gabled dormers. Brick ridge
stack. Contemporary gabled wing at rear forming L-shaped plan.
Telford Golf & Country Club
1775
Former stable range. Red brick stable range with hay loft above. Plain
tile roof with parapeted gable ends. Segmental-headed ground floor doorways
and windows. First floor small modern windows and ventilation holes in
diamond and triangular patterns. Circular plaque in end gable 'AD 1775'.
Telford Golf & Country Club
C17/C18
Brick, the principal elevations roughcast. Hipped plain tile roof. Two storeys.
Five bays, left and right-hand bays projecting. 1:2:3 windows, sashes with glazing
bars and voussoired heads and keyblocks. Central modern glazed door and modern
conservatory across recess. Side doorway with wooden trellis porch and panelled door.
A salient feature is the massive brick chimney stacks with blind round-head
arcading. Panelled rooms of c1700 with chimneypieces. John Rose, the founder of
Coalport Chinaworks, lived here.
Infant School
1853
Small classical building in buff coloured brick. Three bay front with moulded
stone pediment containing circular opening with cast iron grille. Brick corner
pilasters. Round arched windows with glazing bars flanking central pedimented
porch with stone plaque above inscribed "Infant School MDCCCLIII". Slate roof.
Round-arched side windows.
Railings
Mid C19
Railings in front of vicarage (which has been rebuilt). Iron railings, the
shafts have spear heads and the stanchions have urns. Mounted on low brick wall.
Openwork cast iron gatepiers with finials and ornate gate. Included for group
value.
Stable
C17
Timber-framed stable range on ashlar base, and red brick infill panels. Plin tile
roof. L-shaped on plan. West side facing road faced in sandstone. South side
faced in red brick in C19. Mounting block in the angle on north side, rusticated
ashlar.
Hall House
Medieval
Probably a 2-bay medieval hall, with C17 and C18 additions and alterations.
Long range at right angles to road. Central part is timber framed with painted
brick infill panels. One storey and attic. Large dormer with jettied gable.
Two storeyed sucooed timber frame to right with jettied gable with exposed
timber framing and plastered panels; C18 canted 2-storey bay window with sashes
and modillion cornice. C18 painted brick addition at west end facing road,
2-storeys, stepped brick gable end, and C19 gable; small early C19 bowed shop
window to right with entablature and glazing bars and mid C19 pilastered shop
to left with splayed window. C18 painted brick addition at opposite (east) end.
Interior: the timber-framed range contains cruck trusses to what was probably a
hall which has subsequently been floored.
House.
Early C18.
Red brick house. Hipped plain tile roof with heavey modillion eaves cornice.
Two-storeys and attic. Five bays. Restored sashes with glazing bars, gauged
flat brick arches with keystones. Central moulded doorcase with fielded panel
door and rectangular fanlight. Restored plain shell hood over door supported
on plain brackets and keystones of door arch below. Three hipped dormers with
leaded-pane casements. Large brick end stacks. 2:1:2 bays at rear with hipped
roof, centre higher.
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