Berrington is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 43 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, two are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Berrington, Betton Strange, Cross Houses, and is otherwise rural. Most of the listed buildings are houses and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings, many of them dating from the 17th century or before, and basically timber framed. There are two listed churches, the older church All Saints Church, Berrington also having listed structures in the churchyard. In addition, the listed buildings include two bridges, a former hospital, a milestone and a milepost, a number of pumps, some with associated troughs, and a war memorial.
The church was altered in the following centuries, and restored in 1877 when the porch was also rebuilt. It is built in sandstone with tiled roofs, and consists of a nave, a south aisle, a south porch, a chancel and a west tower. The tower is in Perpendicular style, with two stages, diagonal buttresses, an embattledparapet and a pyramidal roof. In the porch is the re-used former 13th-century doorway of the nave.[2][3]
The house is timber framed and of cruck construction with brick nogging, extensions in brick, and a tile roof with a brick ridge. It is part of a former hall house, it has two bays, one storey with an attic, and two storeys. The windows are casements, and there are two gabled half-dormers.[2][4]
The cottage, later used for other purposes, was partly rebuilt in the 19th century. The original part is timber framed with red brick nogging, the rebuilding was in red brick, and the roof is tiled. There is one storey and an attic, and two bays. It has a casement window and a central gableddormer. Adjoining it is a 19th-century cast iron pump.[5]
A farmhouse that was extended in the 19th century, the original part is timber framed and rendered, and the extension is rendered; the roof is tiled. There are two storeys and attics, the front facing the road has two bays, and behind it is an extension, forming a T-shaped plan. On the front is a doorway with a mouldedarchitrave, a fanlight, and a cornice. The windows are cross-windows with moulded architraves and hood moulds. In the rear wing, most of the windows are casements, there is a sash window and gableddormers with bargeboards.[6]
The barn was extended in the 19th century. The original part is timber framed with red brick nogging, and the extension is in red brick with a dentileavescornice; the roof is tiled. There are four bays, and the barn contains opposing wagon entrances. There are also doorways, loft doors, segmental-headed windows, and lozenge-shaped vents.[2][7]
Originally a house, later divided, it was remodelled in the early 18th century, and extended in about 1900. Basically timber framed with brick nogging, it has been largely encased, rebuilt and extended in red brick. There are bands, a dentileavescornice, and a tile roof. The house has two storeys with an attic, and an L-shaped plan, with a two-bay front and a one-bay rear wing. The windows are casements; they and the doorway have segmental heads. At the rear are outshuts and outbuildings.[8]
The farmhouse is timber framed with renderedinfill on a plinth of red brick and red sandstone, partly rendered, and partly encased or rebuilt in red brick. The roof is partly in stone-slate and partly tiled. There are two storeys and attics, and the house consists of a hall flanked by cross-wings, all gabled with bargeboards and finials. The upper floor and the gables are jettied. In the left wing is a recessed porch with side benches. Most of the windows are casements, and on the right return are two flat roofed cantedbay windows containing sashes.[2][9]
The farmhouse was extended in the 18th and 19th centuries. The original part is timber framed with red brick nogging on a red sandstoneplinth. It has been partly encased in red brick, the extensions are in red brick, and the roofs are tiled. The different parts have one or two storeys, some with attics. The windows are casements, and there is a cantedbay window and a stair wing.[10]
The farmhouse is in red brick with bands, and a tiled roof with parapetedgable ends. It has two storeys and an attic, and an L-shaped plan. On the front are three bays, and the windows are cross-casements.[11]
The farmhouse was extended to the north west and remodelled in the 19th century. It is in brick on a plinth of red sandstone and red brick, and has a tile roof. There are two storeys and an attic, and two parallel ranges. The gables face the road and have scalloped bargeboards and finials. In the centre is a gabled porch with scalloped bargeboards and a finial. The windows in the upper floor are cross-windows, in the ground floor they are casements with transoms, and all have hood moulds.[14]
The wall runs along the east side of the garden. It is in red brick on a plinth of red and grey sandstone, and has coping with chamfered red sandstone. The wall is about 20 metres (66 ft) long and between 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) and 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high.[15]
The granary has two storeys and seven bays. The ground floor is in red brick, the upper floor is timber framed with red brick nogging, and the hipped roof is partly in tile and partly in corrugated asbestos. There are doors in the ground floor, and two loft doors and a window in the upper floor. To the left is a two-bay cart shed.[16]
The farmhouse incorporates an earlier timber framed house. It is in red brick with a tile roof, hipped to the east. There are two storeys with attics, and an L-shaped plan consisting of a range and a cross-wing. Most of the windows are casements.[17]
The walls surround the churchyard, and were extended in the 19th century. They are in sandstone with some repairs in brick, and partly with sandstonecoping. On the east side is a 19th-century gateway flanked by chamfered square gate piers with pyramidal caps, and a wrought iron gate and railings.[18]
The farmhouse and stable blocks are in red brick with some dressings in grey sandstone, dentileavescornices, and tile roofs with parapetedgable ends. The house has three storeys and three bays, and the stable blocks are set-back pavilions with two bays and one storey with attics; they are joined to the house by one-storey links. The house has a central doorway with a mouldedarchitrave, a rectangular fanlight, and a hood on brackets. The pavilions have stable doors and external steps leading up to loft doors. All the windows are casements.[19]
The sundial is in the churchyard of All Saints Church, and is in grey sandstone. It has a square base on a circular step, a tapered square baluster with a circular neck and pedestal, and a square top. On the top is an inscribed copper dial and a gnomon.[20]
The chest tombs are in the churchyard of All Saints Church. They are in grey sandstone, both have panels, and each has a mouldedcornice to a flat top. One is to the memory of John Lockley, and the other has an illegible inscription.[22]
The memorials are in the churchyard of All Saints Church, and are to the memory of two members of the Meire family. They are in sandstone and consist of two chest tombs. Both tombs have a chamferedplinth, panels, flanking flutedpilaster strips, a mouldedcornice and a flat top. There are also individual differences.[24]
The buildings are in red brick with grey sandstone hinge blocks and tile roofs. The barns from an L-shaped plan, with a three-bay barn and a two-bay barn at right angles. Adjoining them is a stable, and there is a linking wall.[25]
The memorial is in the churchyard of All Saints Church and is to the memory of Benjamin Bromley. It is in grey sandstone and consists of a chest tomb with a chamfered base. The tomb has side panels with flutedpilaster strips, oval end panels, a mouldedcornice, and a chamfered top.[27]
The buildings are in red brick on a plinth, with grey sandstone dressings, an impost band, a dentileavescornice, and a hipped tile roof. There is one storey and a loft, and a front of three bays. In the centre is a blind segmental archway with pilaster strips carrying a triangular pediment with an oeil-de-boeuf window in the tympanum. Elsewhere are segmental-headed windows and doorways.[28]
Originally a workhouse, later used as a hospital, and then converted into flats, the building is in red brick with a dentileavescornice and a hippedslate roof. There are three storeys, a front of eleven bays, the outer two bays projecting, and rear wings, forming an H-shaped plan. In the centre is a segmental-arched doorway, and most of the windows are sashes.[29][30]
A farmhouse in red brick with a slate roof, it has two and three storeys and three bays. The central doorway is set in a segmental-arched recess, and has panelled pilasters, a rectangular fanlight, shaped brackets, and a segmental pediment. In front is a gabled lattice wooden porch with scalloped bargeboards and a finial. The windows are sashes.[31]
The pump is in cast iron. It has a tall shaft with a moulded ring and a plain spout, a plain top with a straight handle, and a shallow domed cap with an urn finial.[32]
Originally a rectory by designed Joseph Bromfield, later a small country house. It is in red brick on a stone plinth, with sandstone dressings, a frieze, a dentileavescornice, and a hippedslate roof. There are two and three storeys, five bays on the front and four on the sides. On the left is a recessed one-bay pavilion and a one-bay link, there is a recessed one-bay block on the right. Steps lead up to a sandstone porch with paired unflutedDoric columns, an architrave, a frieze, and a shallow pediment. Most of the windows are sashes.[2][33]
The stable block is in red brick with a renderedfrieze and a slate roof. It has a T-shaped plan and two storeys, and the doorways have segmental heads. There is a central projecting single-storey block with a hipped roof and sash windows. Elsewhere the windows are casements. A flight of stone steps with a wrought ironbalustrade leads up to a first floor door.[34]
The memorial is a chest tomb in the churchyard of All Saints Church and is to the memory members of the Wigley family. It is in grey sandstone, and has side panels with flutedpilaster strips, oval end panels, a mouldedcornice, and a flat top.[36]
The bridge carries a road over the Cound Brook. It is in cast iron with red brick abutments, corrugated decking, and a balustrade in concrete and steel. It has a single span with pierced spandrels and lattice girders.[37]
A terrace of five houses in red brick with a slate roof. There are two storeys with attics in the end bays, a front of eight bays, with the outer bays projecting forward and gabled. The doorways have pilasters. friezes, cornices, and fanlights, and the windows are sashes.[38]
The church is in red sandstone with dressings in grey sandstone and a tile roof. It consists of a nave, a north porch, a lower chancel, and a tower.[40][42]
The pump is in cast iron, and has a circular shaft with moulded rings and a splayed spout, a fluted top, and a handle with an acorn balance weight. The trough is in sandstone, and they are enclosed on three sides by red brick walls with rounded coping.[43]
The pump is in cast iron, and has a circular shaft with moulded rings, a fluted top with a splayed spout, and a fluted domed cap with a finial. It has a curved handle and an inscribed iron plate. The trough is in grey sandstone with rounded front corners.[44]
The pump is in cast iron. It has a fluted columnar shaft with a splayed spout, a fluted top, a straight handle, and a fluted domed cap with a finial.[45]
The pump is in cast iron. It has a circular shaft with a fluted spout and two angled stays, a fluted top, a fluted domed cap, and a straight handle. The trough is in grey sandstone, and has a semicircular shape.[47]
The war memorial is in the churchyard of All Saints Church. It is in Grinshillsandstone, and consists of an obelisk on a tapered base on a stepped plinth. About the midpoint of the obelisk is a projecting band with pediments. On the sides are limestone plaques with inscriptions and the names of those lost in both World Wars.[48]