Description

SJ 80 SW BONINGALE C.P. HOLYREAD ROAD
(off south side)
6/112
Upper Pepperhill
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- II

House. Early C16, re-built c.1700 with later, principally C19 and C20,
additions and alterations. Red brick on sandstone plinth, plain tiled
roofs, gabled to right; massive C16 external brick end stacks on sandstone
bases to left and right, another large external sandstone stack behind
to right. 2 storeys; 4 bays with slight break (formerly gabled?) in
centre of main range, the right hand one being a projecting cross wing;
windows irregularly spaced, C20 casements in recessed openings with chamfered
sills, entrance to left under plain flat-headed arch. To rear a blocked
window at ground level presumably lit a cellar and another blocked opening
is visible next to the front right hand end stack. In 1519 Sir John
Talbot created a park at Pepper Hill and he may have been the builder
of the first house. In 1698 3 chimney stacks collapsed and the house
was re-built in the following year by William Hill, Steward to the Earl
of Shrewsbury. For some years after 1880 it was divided into 2 cottages.
The house is perched on a rock outcrop and commands extensive views over
the surrounding countryside. T.S.A.S., 2nd Series, XI p.113; 3rd Series,
IX, p.47.

Listing NGR: SJ8211601913

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26531852

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)