Brookhouse Farm Cottage and attached barn

Brookhouse Farm Cottage and attached barn, Acton Hill Road, Acton Trussell, Stafford, ST17 0RY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1039239
Date first listed:
02-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Brookhouse Farm Cottage and attached barn
Statutory Address:
Brookhouse Farm Cottage and attached barn, Acton Hill Road, Acton Trussell, Stafford, ST17 0RY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1039239
Date first listed:
02-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Brookhouse Farm Cottage and attached barn
Statutory Address 1:
Brookhouse Farm Cottage and attached barn, Acton Hill Road, Acton Trussell, Stafford, ST17 0RY

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Brookhouse Farm Cottage and attached barn, Acton Hill Road, Acton Trussell, Stafford, ST17 0RY

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
South Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Acton Trussell and Bednall
National Grid Reference:
SJ 93954 18681

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/02/2020

SJ 91 NW
3/1

ACTON TRUSSELL, BEDNALL AND TEDDESLEY HAY C.P.
ACTON TRUSSELL
Acton Hill Road
Brookhouse Farm Cottage and attached barn

(Formerly listed as Brookhouse and attached barn, ACTON TRUSSELL)

II

Farmhouse and barn. C17 with later alterations and additions. Red brick (English garden wall bond); plain tile roofs; brick integral end stacks. Aligned north-east/south-west, with barn to south-west and house to north-east. Barn to left, house to right.

Barn: One storey; three bays, blocked threshing floor doorway to centre, inserted sliding door to left, segmental-headed door and window to right; raised roof verges.

House: Main two-storey, single-bay house to left with C20 casements and gabled porch with shaped tile roof, and slightly lower single-bay extension to right of one storey and gable-lit attic, with segmental-headed casement. Main house has exposed timber roof truss to right hand gable with central vertical strut above the collar, one pair of purlins and ridge piece. Included as a rare example of an early enclosure farmstead.

Listing NGR: SJ9395418681

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
271649
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Peters, JEC, The Development of Farm Buildings in Western Lowland Staffordshire up to 1880, (1965), 25-26

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Brookhouse Farm Cottage and attached barn

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