YEATON PEVEREY HALLShropshire

Reception hall | Cloakroom | Inner hall | Billiard room

Conservatory | Cedar ballroom | Sitting room | Chapel

Boudoir | Dining room | Office | Kitchen | Summer kitchen

Gun room | Boot room | Pantry | Swimming pool | Gym

Master Suite | 8 Bedrooms

4 En suite bathrooms | 2 Bathrooms

Bachelor wing: 4 Bedrooms | Bathroom

5 Flats

Courtyard | Tennis court | Gardens | Pond

About 6 acres

YEATON PEVEREY HALLYEATON PEVEREY | BOMERE HEATH

SHREWSBURY

AN OUTSTANDING GRADE II* LISTED

COUNTRY HOUSE OF EXCEPTIONAL

SIGNIFICANCE

The style is informal Elizabethan with an outburst of half-timbering towards the garden.

"Shropshire's First Self-Consciously Artistic Victorian Country House"

The house was built in 1889-92 by Aston Webb for Sir Offley Wakeman, Bart, antiquary and local politician, and is Webb’s only full scale country house. The style is informal Elizabethan and only the very best materials were used; choice English oak for the half-timbering, green Westmorland slate for the roofs and red sandstone from the Triassic beds at Boreatton. For thirty years, until 1971, Yeaton Peverey Hall was used as a school with around 100 pupils.

Some of the richly decorated interior rooms have cedar panelling whilst most have moulded and enriched plastered ceilings and wall decoration, inglenooks and chimney-pieces. Some of the original wallpaper and light fittings remain, and there is a private family chapel. The house stands in landscaped grounds, including a terrace and forecourt walls with pavilions.

The body of the house is largely two-storeyed and at first sight quite irregular, held together by the continuous length-ways roof ridges, and by a mid-height frieze bearing the text from Psalm 127, ‘Unless the Lord build the house’.

There is a central entrance arch with wrought-iron gates by Starkie

Gardner and twin standing figures of town criers (wakemen)

The style is informal Elizabethan with an outburst of half-timbering towards the garden.

There is a substantial battlemented conservatory with segmental windows at the northwest corner of the house.

The interior is a carefully managed sequence of spaces. The entrance vestibule opens into a large dark wainscoted stair hall, the stair rising to the west and the main space opened up to a balustraded upper balcony top-lit by means of a coved, leaded lay-light.

There is an arched doorway with voussoirs and colonnetted jambs,

a reduced version of Webb’s portal at the Victoria and Albert Museum,

designed in 1891.

The inner hall, with decorated plaster ceiling and an armorial chimneypiece dated 1892 with inglenook seats

The Billiard Room has an inglenook under a semi-circular arch, and direct access into the conservatory.

The principal reception room, the Ballroom, also opens, by a low panelled vestibule to

the conservatory.

The south wall is a huge mullion-and-transom window

grid, the plaster ceiling decorated with pendants.

There is a mighty inglenook fireplace with timber overmantel on columns.

The ORATORY beyond the ceiling takes the form of an enriched segmental vault. Stained glass here by Kempe.

The sequence of south-facing rooms ends with Lady Wakeman’s BOUDOIR, decorated with especially pretty plasterwork, of flowers and pomegranates among strapwork, and Sir Offley’s STUDY, where an inscription tablet above the door records the design and construction of the house in 1889-92.

On the principal staircase there is heraldic glass and at the stairhead an arcade creating one of the most

imaginative spaces in the house.

SITUATION

Yeaton Peverey is situated in an elevated position amidst the

undulating countryside a few miles to the north-west of Shrewsbury. The area is remarkably unspoilt and the property has superb views out over the River Perry towards the Welsh

Borders.

Gardens & Grounds The beautiful, landscaped gardens provide a classic and private setting for this superb country house. There are a variety of lawns, mature specimen trees and rhododendrons, with an idyllic pond and far reaching views over the field.

For a more detailed description please see ‘The buildings of England, Shropshire’ by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner page 727.

Services Private drainage. Mains water, electricity and oil fired central heating.Council tax The Hall Band H. Flat 1,3 Band A. Flat 2, 4, 5 Band B.Local authority Shropshire Council 0345 678 9000.Fixtures and fittings Only those items known as fixtures and fittings will be included in the sale. Certain items such as garden ornaments, carpets and curtains may be available by separate negotiation.Wayleaves, rights of way and easements The property will be sold subject to and with the benefit of all wayleaves, easements and rights of way, whether mentioned in these particulars or not. Viewing strictly by appointment through Strutt & Parker LLP

If you require this publication in an alternative format, please contact Strutt & Parker on tel 01743 284200. IMPORTANT NOTICE Strutt & Parker LLP for themselves and for the Vendors of this property, whose agents they are, give notice that: 1. The particulars are intended to give a fair and substantially correct overall description for the guidance of intending purchasers and do not constitute part of an offer or contract. Prospective purchasers and lessees ought to seek their own professional advice. 2. All descriptions, dimensions, areas, reference to condition and necessary permissions for use and occupation and other details are given in good faith, and are believed to be correct, but any intending purchasers should not rely on them as statements or representations of fact, but must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to the correctness of each of them. 3. No person in the employment of Strutt & Parker LLP has any authority to make or give any representations or warranty whatever in relation to this property on behalf of Strutt & Parker LLP, nor enter into any contract on behalf of the Vendor. 4. No responsibility can be accepted for any expenses incurred by intending purchasers in inspecting properties which have been sold, let or withdrawn. Photographs taken October 2011. Particulars prepared September 2011. MEASUREMENTS AND OTHER INFORMATION All measurements are approximate. While we endeavour to make our sales particulars accurate and reliable , if there is any point which is of particular importance to you, please contact this office and we will be pleased to check the information for you, particularly if contemplating travelling some distance to view the property.

Pond

79.1m

Stone

Fountain

Fountain

CourtTennis

Cattle Grid

Yeaton Peverey Hall

5.932 acres

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This plan is for identification purposes only. Its accuracy can in no way be guaranteed. Reproduced from the Ordnance

Survey Map with permission of the ControllerH.M.S.O Crown copyright reserved.

Licence No. ES100018525

Yeaton Peverey Hall Shropshire

Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. Licence number 100020449. Plotted Scale - 1:1741

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