Description

WOLVERLEY & COOKLEY CP WOLVERLEY SO 87 NW 6/149 Wolverley House 20.10.52 GV II* Shown on OS as Knight House. Country house, now flats. Mid-C18 with some mid-C20 extensions and late C20 alterations. Brick with stone dressings and tile roof. Entrance (west) front: three storeys, brick coped parapet, modillioned stone cornice, stone coped verges, ashlar quoins. Seven windows: 15-pane sashes under rubbed brick heads with keystones and stone sills. Second floor with 6-pane sashes. Central entrance has stone doorcase with engaged Droic columns and pediment. A contemporary service wing to left extended forwards in mid-C20, to right a wing of 1930s. Garden (east) front: three storeys, central break forward pedimented, modillioned stone eaves cornice, ashlar quoins to corners. Two plus one plus two windows: central window Venetian with stone architrave, flanking windows with stone architraves and consoles to stone sills. All are 15-pane sashes. Second floor with 6-pane sashes with a central Diocletian window. Central entrance in Venetian pattern. Projecting wings on each side with three semi-circular headed niches. Interior: staircase has iron twist balusters and carved tread ends. (BoE, p 292; Reid, P: Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses, Volume II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, 1980, p 214).

Listing NGR: SO8301779619

External Links

• Wikidata Q17549128

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)