Wombourne is acivil parish in the district ofSouth Staffordshire,Staffordshire, England. It contains 29listed buildings that are recorded in theNational Heritage List for England. Of these, five are at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the large village of Wombourne, the smaller village ofOrton, and the surrounding area. In the parish is acountry house,The Wodehouse, which is listed, together with a number of associated structures. TheStaffordshire and Worcestershire Canal runs through the parish, and the listed buildings associated with it are bridges,locks, aweir, and atoll house. Most of the other listed buildings are houses and associated structures, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings. The rest of the listed buildings include a church, two road bridges, awatermill. a water pumping station, and a war memorial.
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| Grade | Criteria[1] |
|---|---|
| II* | Particularly important buildings of more than special interest |
| II | Buildings of national importance and special interest |
| Name and location | Photograph | Date | Notes | Grade |
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| Church of St. Benedict Biscop 52°32′11″N2°10′59″W / 52.53633°N 2.18318°W /52.53633; -2.18318 (Church of St. Benedict Biscop) |  | 14th century | The oldest part of the church is the 14th century west tower, the northaisle dates probably from the 16th century, and the rest of the church was built in 1866–67 to a design byGeorge Edmund Street inGothic Revival style. The church is built insandstone with tile roofs, and consists of anave, north and south aisles, a north chapel, a south porch, achancel with a northvestry and organ chamber, and a west steeple. The steeple has a tower with three stages, a two-light west window with a pointed head, clock faces on the south and west sides, anembattledparapet withcrocketed cornerpinnacles andgargoyles, and a recessed spire with three tiers oflucarnes withogee heads.[2][3] | II |
| The Wodehouse 52°32′23″N2°10′13″W / 52.53959°N 2.17028°W /52.53959; -2.17028 (The Wodehouse) | — | 14th century | A smallcountry house, it has since been extended, remodeled and altered. It has atimber framed core, and the exterior is inrendered brick, with tile roofs. There is an irregular E-shaped plan, and the south front has two storeys and attics, sevenbays, and flanking wings, a central porch and shapedgables withfinials. Attached to the right wing is a chapel.[4][5] | II* |
| 12 High Street 52°32′06″N2°11′01″W / 52.53488°N 2.18352°W /52.53488; -2.18352 (12 High Street) | — | 17th century | A house, later an office, it was altered in the 19th century. The building istimber framed with painted brickinfill, some repair in brick, and it has a tile roof. There is one storey and an attic, and twobays. In the centre is a doorway, with a shop window to the right, and a four-paned window to the left. Above, there are twogableddormers.[6] | II |
| Pauper's Cottage and Wombrook Cottage 52°31′57″N2°11′04″W / 52.53259°N 2.18456°W /52.53259; -2.18456 (Pauper's Cottage and Wombrook Cottage) | — | 1716 | A row of three cottages, originallyalmshouses, in red brick, with astorey band, and a tile roof. There is one storey and attics, threebays, and rear extensions. The doorways have triangular heads, the windows arecasements, there are four flat-roofeddormers, and in the centre is a datestone.[7] | II |
| Mansion Court 52°31′44″N2°12′39″W / 52.52898°N 2.21079°W /52.52898; -2.21079 (Mansion Court) | — | Early 18th century | The house was extended in the 20th century and divided into flats. It is in red brick with amouldedeavescornice and a tile roof. There is a main block of three storeys and threebays, projecting L-shaped wings, and recessed wings on the sides. In the centre is a doorway with engaged columns, and the windows aresashes with raisedkeystones.[8] | II |
| Orton Grange 52°33′10″N2°11′34″W / 52.55280°N 2.19283°W /52.55280; -2.19283 (Orton Grange) |  | Early 18th century | The oldest part of the farmhouse is the cross-wing, which was altered in 1685. The main part of the house dates from about 1800, and it was extended at the rear in the 20th century. The early part istimber framed, the main part is in brick, it is allrendered, and the roofs are tiled. The main part hasdentilledeaves, three storeys and threebays. The central doorway has reededpilasters, afanlight, and a brokenpediment, and the windows aresashes with segmental heads. The cross-wing has two storeys and an attic, in the attic is acasement window and a datestone, and the other windows are sashes. There are single-storey single-bay lean-to on each side.[9] | II |
| Barn, The Wodehouse 52°32′27″N2°10′10″W / 52.54094°N 2.16932°W /52.54094; -2.16932 (Barn, The Wodehouse) |  | Early 18th century | The barn istimber framed on a high brickplinth, withinfill and some rebuilding in brick, and a tile roof. There is one storey and fivebays. The barn contains central barn doors, and in the rightgable end is a doorway and a pitching hatch.[10] | II |
| Coach house and stable block, The Wodehouse 52°32′22″N2°10′10″W / 52.53948°N 2.16950°W /52.53948; -2.16950 (Coach house and stable block, The Wodehouse) | — | Early 18th century | The building is in red brick with amouldedeavescornice, and a tile roof. There are two storeys and elevenbays, the middle three bays projecting under apediment, and the outer bays beinggabled cross-wings withcoped verges and draped vasefinials at the corners. In the central bays are two segmental carriage arches flanked by recesses containing doorways each with a mouldedarchitrave, apulvinated frieze, and a bracketed pediment, above which is a segmental arch with a moulded architrave and a raisedkeystone. Most of the windows aresashes with segmental arches and raised keystones, and each of the cross-wings has a ground floorVenetian window. In the centre of the roof is acupola with semicircular arched openings, anogee-shaped dome and a dragonweathervane.[4][11] | II* |
| Wodehouse Farmhouse and Mill 52°32′29″N2°10′10″W / 52.54128°N 2.16935°W /52.54128; -2.16935 (Wodehouse Farmhouse and Mill) | — | Early 18th century | The farmhouse andwatermill are in red brick with tile roofs. The farmhouse hasstorey bands, aneaves band, three storeys, and fourbays. The doorway has a rectangularfanlight, and the windows arecasements with segmental heads containingmullions andtransoms. The mill projecting to the left has three storeys, adentilled eaves band, and three bays. The doorways and windows have segmental heads, and inside the mill is acast ironovershot wheel.[12] | II* |
| White Cross House, Orton 52°33′15″N2°11′38″W / 52.55428°N 2.19391°W /52.55428; -2.19391 (White Cross House) | — | 1736 | A farmhouse, later a private house, it is in red brick withstorey bands, adentilledeaves band, and a tile roof. There are two storeys and an attic, and an L-shaped plan, with a main block of fivebays, and a short rear wing. In the centre is agabled porch and a doorway with a rectangularfanlight, the windows arecasements with segmental heads, and there are three gableddormers.[13] | II |
| 7 Maypole Street, outbuilding and wall 52°32′08″N2°11′09″W / 52.53550°N 2.18571°W /52.53550; -2.18571 (7 Maypole Street) | — | 1743 | The house and the outbuilding are in red brick with tile roofs. The house hasdentilledeaves, two storeys and an attic, a double-pile plan, and threebays. In the centre is a trellised porch and a round-headed doorway with afanlight. The windows arecasements withmullions andtransoms, wedgelintels and raisedkeystones. The window above the doorway is blind and has an inscribed keystone, and in the attic are twogableddormers. At the rear is a two-bay wing with abow window. The outbuilding to the south has one storey and lofts, and two bays, and consists of a former coach house and stables. In front of the outbuilding is a tall brick wall, with a lower wall in front of the house.[14] | II |
| Langley Farmhouse, wall and gate piers 52°34′06″N2°11′48″W / 52.56839°N 2.19663°W /52.56839; -2.19663 (Langley Farmhouse) | — | Mid 18th century | A red brick farmhouse withstorey bands, adentilledeaves band, and a tile roof. There are two storeys and an attic, and threebays. In the centre is a rustic porch with ahipped roof, and the windows areashes. On two sides of the front garden is a brick wall with stonecoping, containing endpiers and gate piers, the latter surmounted bygadrooned vases.[15] | II |
| Gravel Hill Bridge 52°31′58″N2°11′07″W / 52.53277°N 2.18523°W /52.53277; -2.18523 (Gravel Hill Bridge) |  | 18th century | The bridge carries Gavel Hill road overWom Brook. It is in red brick with stone dressings, and consists of a single segmental arch. The bridge has aparapet band and a plaincoped parapet with square endpiers.[16] | II |
| Bridge over Wodehouse Mill Pool 52°32′27″N2°10′13″W / 52.54087°N 2.17021°W /52.54087; -2.17021 (Bridge over Wodehouse Mill Pool) |  | 18th century | The bridge carries the 463 road over the Wodehouse Mill Pool. It is in stone and consists of a single semicircular arch. The bridge hasrusticatedvoussoirs and a raisedkeystone, it is flanked by rusticatedpilasters, and has amouldedparapetstring course and a plaincoped parapet.[17] | II |
| Dam, Wodehouse Mill Pool 52°32′23″N2°10′17″W / 52.53981°N 2.17130°W /52.53981; -2.17130 (Dam, Wodehouse Mill Pool) | — | 18th century | The dam at the south end of the mill pool provides acauseway toThe Wodehouse. It is in stone, and consists of nine semicircular arches withrusticatedvoussoirs and raisedkeystones, all of which are flanked bypilasterbuttresses. The dam has amouldedparapetstring course, and a plaincoped parapet.[18] | II |
| Wombourne House and Millbrook, High Street 52°32′07″N2°10′59″W / 52.53521°N 2.18309°W /52.53521; -2.18309 (Wombourne House and Millbrook) |  | Mid to late 18th century | A house, later a house and office, the building is in red brick with adentilledeaves band and a tile roof. There are three storeys, threebays, and a small rear wing. The windows arecasements, those in the lower two floors with segmental heads. There are two doorways, the doorway to the right has a segmental head.[19] | II |
| 6 Gavel Hill 52°32′02″N2°11′08″W / 52.53390°N 2.18564°W /52.53390; -2.18564 (6 Gavel Hill) |  | 1768 | A red brick house with cornerpilasters, amouldedeavescornice, and a tile roof. There are two storeys and twobays. The central doorway has a bracketed cornice hood, and above it is a datestone. The windows aresashes, those in the ground floor with wedgelintels and raised andflutedkeystones.[20] | II |
| Bridge No. 42 (Botterham Bridge), lock and weir 52°31′11″N2°12′27″W / 52.51972°N 2.20741°W /52.51972; -2.20741 (Bridge No. 42 (Botterham Bridge), lock and weir) |  | c. 1770 | The bridge crossing theStaffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is in red brick, and consists of a single segmental arch. It hasquoinedimposts,voussoirs, a band, and a rampedcopedparapet. The staircaselock has two chambers lined with red and blueengineering brick, and three timber gates. To the west of the upper lock is a circularweir with a coped parapet and a central domed cage.[21] | II |
| Bridge No. 46 (Bumblehole Bridge) and lock 52°32′15″N2°12′02″W / 52.53760°N 2.20056°W /52.53760; -2.20056 (Bridge No. 46 (Bumblehole Bridge) and lock) |  | c. 1770 | The bridge crossing theStaffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is in red brick, and consists of a single segmental arch. The bridge has stonequoins, a dripstone, and a stonecopedparapet with a considerable slope. Thelock is to the rear of the bridge.[22] | II |
| Bridge No. 47 (Bratch Bridge), Upper Bratch Bridge, locks and toll house 52°32′30″N2°11′49″W / 52.54175°N 2.19681°W /52.54175; -2.19681 (Bridge No. 47 (Bratch Bridge), Upper Bratch Bridge, locks and toll house) |  | c. 1770 | There are threelocks on theStaffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, two bridges crossing it, and atoll house dating from about 1800. The buildings are in red and blue brick. The toll house has two storeys and an octagonal plan.[23] | II |
| Lloyd House 52°32′52″N2°10′02″W / 52.54770°N 2.16732°W /52.54770; -2.16732 (Lloyd House) | .jpg) | Late 18th century | A smallcountry house, it is in stone with extensions in red brick, on aplinth withmouldedcoping, and has a reededfloor band, a mouldedeaves band,dentilled overhanging eaves, and ahippedslate roof. There are two storeys and ninebays. The middle three bays project and are bowed, with acolonnade of twounflutedIonic columns, and it is approached by three steps. At the rear are three storeys, a dentilledparapet, and a central porch withTuscan columns, acornice, and a flat roof.[4][24] | II* |
| Gates and gate piers, Lloyd House 52°32′56″N2°10′11″W / 52.54886°N 2.16976°W /52.54886; -2.16976 (Gates and gate piers, Lloyd House) | — | Late 18th century | The main entrance to the drive hascast iron main and pedestrian gates flanked by four square gatepiers. The piers are inrusticated stone, and each has acornice and a ballfinial.[25] | II |
| Summer house, Lloyd House 52°32′55″N2°10′03″W / 52.54862°N 2.16737°W /52.54862; -2.16737 (Summer house, Lloyd House) | — | Early 19th century | Thesummer house in the grounds of the house is inroughcast red brick and has ahipped tile roof. There is an octagonal plan, and it contains a door with anogee-headedfanlight, and ogee-headed windows with Y-tracery.[26] | II |
| Badger's Folly 52°33′03″N2°10′26″W / 52.55082°N 2.17389°W /52.55082; -2.17389 (Badger's Folly) | — | Early 19th century | The gardenfolly is insandstone and inGothic style. It is in the form of a ruined castle with a cylindrical tower and two short lengths of wall. The tower has two storeys, and contains afour-centred arched doorway and aloop. The wall contains a doorway with a pointed head flanked by loops.[27] | II |
| Cottage at Bumblehole Lock 52°32′15″N2°12′01″W / 52.53762°N 2.20040°W /52.53762; -2.20040 (Cottage at Bumblehole Lock) |  | Early 19th century | The lock keeper's cottage is in painted brick with overhangingeaves and a tile roof. There are two storeys and twobays. The central doorway has a bracketedcornice hood, and the windows arecasements with semicircular heads.[28] | II |
| Smestow Mill 52°31′20″N2°12′47″W / 52.52231°N 2.21310°W /52.52231; -2.21310 (Smestow Mill) | — | Early 19th century (probable) | Awatermill in whitewashed brick with a tile roof. It has a T-shaped plan, consisting of a maingabled block of three storeys and threebays, flanking two-storey, three-bay wings, each with adentilledeaves band and a centralpediment, and a gabled porch, and a rear wing. The left wing has a blind semicircular arch and alunette. In the rear wing is acast ironbreastshot wheel.[29] | II |
| Bearnett House 52°33′05″N2°10′25″W / 52.55151°N 2.17359°W /52.55151; -2.17359 (Bearnett House) | — | 1854 | A large red brick house with painted stone dressings,quoins, amouldedsill band, a mouldedeavescornice, and a tile roof withogee-shapedgables andfinials. The house is inJacobean style, and has two storeys. The east front has threebays, and contains a centralloggia porch that has three semicircular arches withkeystones and a piercedbalustrade. Above it is abow window with a strapworkparapet, and over this is a blindoculus with a keystone. The south front has four bays, the outer bays projecting and gabled, each containing a two-storeybay window with a strapwork parapet and a keyed oculus above. The windows aremullioned andtransomed.[30] | II |
| The Bratch Water Pumping Station 52°32′28″N2°11′44″W / 52.54123°N 2.19566°W /52.54123; -2.19566 (The Bratch Water Pumping Station) |  | 1895 | The water pumping station is inRuabon red brick with dressings in blue and buff brick, stone and tile, and has ahippedslate roof. It has a rectangular plan, and a boiler house, coal store, and borehole house at the rear. There are two storeys and basement, and twobays. It has anembattledparapet, and cornercorbelledbartizans with conical roofs andfinials. The windows aremullioned and have polychromatic heads andtympana.[4][31] | II* |
| War memorial 52°32′10″N2°10′59″W / 52.53610°N 2.18296°W /52.53610; -2.18296 (War memorial) |  | 1920 | The war memorial is in the churchyard of the Church of St. Benedict Biscop. It is ingranite, and consists of anobelisk on a two-stagedplinth on three steps. Carved inrelief on the obelisk are aUnion Jack flag, a wreath and a collar. The upper stage of the plinth tapers, on the front is an inscription, and on the sides are the names of those lost in the two World Wars.[32] | II |
