Description

SK 0039-0139
13/119

CHECKLEY C.P.
HIGH STREET (south side)
Upper Tean
Tean Hall

3.1.67

GV
II*

Large house. Dated 1613 with substantial early C18 addition and mid C19 alterations. Timber frame of closely spaced uprights to earlier part and red brick with stone dressings to later parts. Hipped and gabled tiled roofs; massive central stack between two parts; High Street Frontage: in two parts; to right C17 part of two storeys and dormer lit attic; lower, projecting gable to extreme right, canted floors with quatrefoil pattern in apex and blind attic window over herringbone pattern; first floor with glazing bar sash to right of centre, ground floor obscured by C20 additions; centre recess has tall, full storey gabled dormer set to left, inscribed "1613 A,D." with casement window and canted gable with trefoil pattern over; glazing bar sash set to right below on first floor; three-light casement to centre of ground floor; to left projecting taller two-storey and attic.

Baroque addition of two bays, the left-hand bay projects beyond the right, both are framed by giant pilaster strips on moulded plinth running up to an implied frieze and moulded cornice with hipped roofs; each has a single range of windows; gabled dormer over glazing bar sashes with gauged brick heads and raised keystone, the first floor with raised aprons.

Elevation to hall yard; A continuation of the Baroque wing with similar details but an unusual composition of four windows (two dormers) closely set to left of centre and widely spaced from angles; three of the windows are blocked and to left of centre converted to an entrance with overlight and panelled door.

Interior: mostly remodelled and subdivided. Staircase behind left hand side of gabled timber frame wing; dog-leg and of three flights to attic, heavy handrail, ramped at angles, closed string and turned balusters (one per tread). Further staircase to rear corner of Baroque wing; wide dog-leg, handrail swan necked at angles, two turned balusters per tread, no curtail but two fluted column balusters on last tread. Dining room on first floor with dado panelling and one canvas faced wall (continued in connecting corridor). Early C18 plaster and bolection moulded fireplace surround in adjacent room. Timber framed wing has some C18 panelling. Board room on ground floor a C19 reconstruction retaining heavy cornice.

Listing NGR: SK0101439544

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531812

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair