Butterton Grange Farmhouse
BUTTERTON GRANGE FARMHOUSE, TRENTHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1027842
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Butterton Grange Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERTON GRANGE FARMHOUSE, TRENTHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1027842
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Butterton Grange Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTERTON GRANGE FARMHOUSE, TRENTHAM ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERTON GRANGE FARMHOUSE, TRENTHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitmore
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84308 42111
Details
SJ 84 SW WHITMORE C.P. TRENTHAM ROAD (north side)
6/182 Butterton Grange Farmhouse II*
Farmhouse. 1816 with later alterations. By Sir John Soane, for Sir Thomas Swinnerton of Butterton Hall (q.v. under Park House). Reddish-brown brick with stone dressings, low-pitched slate hipped roof and wide projecting eaves. 3 x 2 bays; elegantly mannered neo- classical villa style. 2 storeys; 3-bay front with central section deeply recessed and flanked by giant canted brick pilasters facing each other; angled and canted pilasters also to corners; windows all 4-paned sashes, those to ground floor round-headed and with fanlights to top; continuous first floor cill band; central round-headed entrance with fanlight like those to ground floor windows, 6-panel double door with 4 upper panels glazed; central ashlar ridge stack with a blind arcade of 5 round-headed arches (central one pierced through and with a small pediment above), an important element of the design. Left- hand return of 2 bays with twin brick pilasters flanking slight central recess. Interior not inspected, but it is known that Soane's designs for this were never carried out. B.O.E., p.92; Howard Colvin, A Biograph- ical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 (1978), p.770.
Listing NGR: SJ8430842111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 362728
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 770
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 92
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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