Wootton Castle
WOOTTON CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054246
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wootton Castle
- Statutory Address:
- WOOTTON CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054246
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wootton Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOTTON CASTLE
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:
- WOOTTON CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 34146 27960
Details
SJ 32 NW OSWESTRY RURAL C.P. WOOTTON
6/224 - Wootton Castle
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 with considerable later additions and alterations. Timber frame, uncoursed sandstone rubble and brick, now largely roughcast, slate roofs. Hall range of 2 unequal framed bays aligned east-west with 2-bay cross-wing added at right-angles to south; this in turn extended to south by single-bay addition c.1900. One storey and attic; late C20 casements to front gable of hall range and 2 contemporary gabled eaves dormers to right, left with half-glazed door beneath and right with late C20 casement below, position of former gabled entrance porch between with late C20 fixed-light casement inserted; small internal end stack to right and reduced and re-built axial ridge stack to hall range behind. Interior: chamfered ceiling beams to main ground-floor rooms and massive stone stack with re-built inglenook fireplaces to hall range; central truss of Queen-strut type exposed upstairs in hall range and former end wall of cross-wing displays close studding with middle rail; much of the remaining timber frame plastered over at time of re-survey (August 1985).
Listing NGR: SJ3414627960
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255702
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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