Wytheford House Farmhouse

Wytheford House Farmhouse, Great Wytheford

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188051
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: Wytheford House Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Wytheford House Farmhouse, Great Wytheford

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188051
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: Wytheford House Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Wytheford House Farmhouse, Great Wytheford

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Wytheford House Farmhouse, Great Wytheford

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shawbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ 57113 19180

Details

SJ 51 NE 12/120

SHAWBURY CP GREAT WYTHEFORD Wytheford House Farmhouse

GV II Farmhouse. Early C18. Red brick with sandstone dressings; two span slate roof. Double-depth plan. Two storeys and gable-lit attic. Chamfered red sandstone plinth, moulded stone eaves cornice and stone-coped parapeted gable ends with moulded stone kneelers. Two brick stacks behind front ridge and brick stack at rear.

South front: 2:1:2 bays; glazing bar sashes with painted moulded stone cills and painted segmental stone lintels which each have raised faceted keystones with moulded tops. Central half-glazed door with three lower flush panels, and early C19 doorcase with reeded pilaster strips and architrave, and moulded cornice.

Late C19 gabled brick porch with chamfered plinth and dentil brick eaves cornice and verges. Pair of half-glazed doors with keyed segmental lintel. Narrow glazing bar sash to each side with keyed segmental lintels. Left-hand gable end with segmental-headed four-pane attic sash, two first floor glazing bar sashes and central ground floor early C19 French casements with three-part rectangular overlight and surround with reeded pilaster strips and cornice. Right-hand gable end with two segmental-headed attic glazing bar sashes.

Rear: formerly three bays, now two; segmental-headed glazing bar sashes. Boarded door to right. The rear range only extends for approximately half the length of the house. The north-west corner appears to have been intended (see projecting bricks) but was never built. C18 one-storey service wing projecting to south-east with plinth, dentil brick eaves cornice and integral lateral brick stack. Two- and three-light segmental-headed wooden casements.

Interior not inspected but various features noted. Entrance hall with staircase. Right-hand ground floor room has tall raised and fielded panelling with dado rail and coved cornice. Left-hand ground-floor room has panelling with giant order of pilasters and segmental niches flanking fireplace. Internal window shutters.

Listing NGR: SJ5711319180

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Legacy System number:: 260115
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.