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Yorton House

A Grade II Listed Building in Myddle, Broughton and Harmer Hill, Shropshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.8013 / 52°48'4"N

Longitude: -2.7374 / 2°44'14"W

OS Eastings: 350382

OS Northings: 322898

OS Grid: SJ503228

Mapcode National: GBR 7J.WFLL

Mapcode Global: WH8B7.XVN9

Plus Code: 9C4VR727+G2

Entry Name: Yorton House

Listing Date: 28 October 1960

Last Amended: 29 October 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1307594

English Heritage Legacy ID: 259994

ID on this website: 101307594

Location: Yorton Heath, Shropshire, SY4

County: Shropshire

Civil Parish: Myddle, Broughton and Harmer Hill

Traditional County: Shropshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire

Church of England Parish: BroughtonSt Mary

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description


SJ 52 SW
8/1
28.10.60

BROUGHTON C.P.
Yorton House
(formerly listed as Yorton Villa)

II

Shown on O.S. map as Yorton Villa.
Farmhouse, now house. Late C18, remodelled and extended c.1830. Stuccoed
to front (lined as ashlar) over red brick; hipped slate roof, 2-span
to rear. 2 and 3 storeys. Plinth, plat band at first-floor cill level,
and dentil brick eaves cornice; pairs of integral rendered brick end
stacks (left-hand at rear now demolished). 3 bays; glazing bar sashes,
round-arched ground-floor windows with louvred shutters. Pair of central
doors with 3 raised and fielded panels each, reeded architrave, segmental
fanlight and surround with reeded pilaster strips, moulded imposts,
and reeded archivolt with key; flight of 9 stone steps (some replaced
with concrete in mid-C20) with low curving flanking walls and square
end piers with globe finials. Circa 1830 two-bay addition set back
to left with painted dressed sandstone plinth, plat band at first-
floor cill level, dentil brick eaves cornice and 16-pane glazing bar
sashes. Right-hand return front (of main block) with central ground-
and first-floor round-arched windows (axial to central corridor).
Rear of main block: 3 storeys. Segmental-headed glazing bar sashes,
horizontal sliding to second floor. Interior not inspected. The owner
(December 1985) suggests that the main entrance was formerly to the
north-east (now a round-arched window) and was moved to its present
position c.1830.

Listing NGR: SJ5038222898

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