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King Charles Barns, Church Street, TELFORD, TF7 5BF

King Charles II and Richard Penderell hid from Parliamentary troops in this barn during the day of 6th September 1651 following the Battle of Worcester. Later that evening they left to return to Boscobel. The barn has been converted to residential use.

King Charles II and Richard Penderell hid from Parliamentary troops in this barn during the day of 6th September 1651 following the Battle of Worcester. Later that evening they left to return to Boscobel. The barn has been converted to residential use.

Grade II listed https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101033273-coach-house-and-barn-north-west-of-upper-house-madeley#.WuAiJfnwaM8 in 1968, the main barn is believed to be 17th century, whilst the coach house (brickwork glimpsed on the right here) is dated 1765. The barn served as a market hall for Madeley in the 18th century, and hid the fugitive King Charles II in the 1650s from Cromwell's army, apparently the day before his famous escapade in the Boscobel oak tree Image

Looking rather better than it did in 1968 at the time of its Grade II listing https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101033271-gazebo-south-south-east-of-the-old-hall-madeley#.WuAdTfnwaM8 (the collapsed roof has been rebuilt in the meantime) this small square brick building dates to the 18th century.

A sandstone and ashlar wall around the grounds of Image, which dates from the 18th century, and was Grade II listed https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101033272-garden-boundary-wall-immediately-north-east-of-upper-house-madeley#.WuFxZ_nwaM8 in 1983.

A building with something of a history. It has roughly three separately-identifiable periods to it; the first being an early 17th century, timber framed core (probably 1620s) on the west side, which was built by the Royalist sympathiser Francis Wolfe, a local mining and ironworks industrialist. In the 18th, this 2.5 storey wing was added, and then later in the same century a couple of extensions to the back. The whole place was Grade II listed https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101208668 & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1208668 in 1983, but is currently awaiting the next phase of its life, after most recent use as local court. It is looking somewhat forlorn in early 2018. Update August 2020. Planning permission has been granted for 'sensitive conversion' of the property into eight flats. This should save the place from further deterioration as a result of neglect, vandalism and inappropriate alteration.

Late 18th century, red-brick built boundary wall, which was Grade II listed https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101352021-garden-boundary-wall-east-of-the-old-hall-madeley#.WuAg5fnwaM8 in 1983. The brick wall surrounds much of the grounds of Image, apart from the section built in sandstone Image to the SW of the hall.

Grade II listed in itself https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101208661-garden-boundary-wall-south-west-of-the-old-hall-madeley#.WuAf9_nwaM8 in 1983, this sandstone ashlar wall and coping surrounds the grounds of the II* listed Image

A late 17th or early 18th century cottage, Grade II listed https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101208689-7-church-street-madeley#.WuFyFvnwaM8 in 1983. It was extended (upwards, by the addition of the brick attic and a new roof, and probably also the chimney stacks) in the 19th century.

Grade II* listed https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101208643-the-old-hall-madeley#.Wt-UhNQrLGg in 1983, this fine early 18th century forms the centrepiece of a series of listed buildings, formerly part of the estate.