LOWER DOWN FARMHOUSE

LOWER DOWN FARMHOUSE, LOWER DOWN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367208
Date first listed:: 02-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: LOWER DOWN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LOWER DOWN FARMHOUSE, LOWER DOWN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367208
Date first listed:: 02-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: LOWER DOWN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER DOWN FARMHOUSE, LOWER DOWN

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:: LOWER DOWN FARMHOUSE, LOWER DOWN

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lydbury North
National Grid Reference:: SO3373584711

Details

SO 38 SW 9/113

LYDBURY NORTH C.P. LOWER DOWN Lower Down Farmhouse

GV II Farmhouse. Probably C16 with extensive later alterations and additions. Limestone rubble with a little surviving exposed timber frame; slate roofs. Aligned east-west, aspect south. Apparently traditional plan, with 'hall' and lower end under one roof, through-passage approached by red brick lean-to outshut, side stack to north; 'solar' cross-wing to west doubled in depth and extended probably late C18. 2 storeys in 2 parts to farmyard. Left-hand part: catslide outshut to left of centre, hall stack projects to right of centre, brick shaft; irregular fenestration, 2 on first floor and one on ground floor; irregular straight-joint between 2 parts. Right-hand part: 2 storeys and cellar. Parallel ridge roof with hips to left; fenestration mid C19 3-light casements, 2 on each floor, evidence of blocked opening to left of centre; central 6 flush-panelled door with 3-light overlight and simple bracketed hood. South front: 3 windows to west wing, mid C19 casements with 8-pane sashes to left, central doorway; gable-end rebuilt in squared and coursed rubble and with coped parapet, flat across valley; traces of close studding on first floor south-east corner; 'hall' range of 3 windows; ledged through-passage door to right-hand end. Interior: much altered but traditional plan can be reconstructed; wide newel stair north-east of 'solar' through-passage. The 'solar' through-passage is probably c.1800.and has 2 service rooms.

Listing NGR: SO3373584711

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Legacy System number:: 257027
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.