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Latitude: 53.0302 / 53°1'48"N
Longitude: -1.768 / 1°46'4"W
OS Eastings: 415653
OS Northings: 348124
OS Grid: SK156481
Mapcode National: GBR 48N.3TC
Mapcode Global: WHCF4.T38B
Plus Code: 9C5W26JJ+3Q
Entry Name: The Necessary House
Listing Date: 30 May 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1231034
English Heritage Legacy ID: 406061
ID on this website: 101231034
Location: Okeover, East Staffordshire, DE6
County: Staffordshire
District: East Staffordshire
Civil Parish: Okeover
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Blore Ray with Okeover
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: House
SK 14 NE OKEOVER C.P. OKEOVER PARK
3/134 The Necessary House
GV II
Former privy now summerhouse. Mid-C18. By Joseph Sanderson for
Leak Okeover. Rendered with ashlar plinth and dressings. Classical
garden feature. Moulded open pediment and tripartite arrangement of
arched openings, the outer ones as windows, the centre one is entrance
with shallow rusticated dressings and voussoirs. Interior plastered.
2 stone privys flank the entrance. Sanderson's drawing for the
building survives and "The drawing of the Necessary House" is mentioned
in a letter from Sanderson dated November 22nd 1746. C.L. Vol. 135
(1964).
Listing NGR: SK1565348124
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