Lower Ridge Farmhouse
LOWER RIDGE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054416
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Ridge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER RIDGE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054416
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Ridge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER RIDGE FARMHOUSE
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:
- LOWER RIDGE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chirbury with Brompton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO2844398424
Details
SO 29 NE;
8/30
CHIRBURY C.P. -
Lower Ridge Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C16, extended C17 and eaves raised late
C18 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with plaster
and painted brick infill and painted rubblestone to gable ends, slate
roofs. Original plan a 2-cell cottage with end stack to left, later
extended to form baffle-entry plan of four framed bays; eaves of C17 addition
raised late C18. One storey and gable-lit attic to two right bays and
two storeys to left bays. Framing: two tall rectangular panels to original
wall-plate with later horizontal timbers, one small rectangular panel
above to C17 addition. Windows all late C20 casements, two on each floor to left part
and one on right to right section; late C19 porch at junction between
2 sections has boarded inner door; late C20 red brick axial ridge stack
to left of right section with external stack to left gable end of C17
part. INTERIOR: timber frame exposed to original back wall; 2 chamfered
spine beams with stepped stops and joists to right ground-floor room,
which has inglenook fireplace with moulded wooden lintel; deep-chamfered
spine beams with straight-cut stops to two other ground-floor rooms.
Roof trusses covered by plasterboard at time of re-survey (November
1985). Prominent C20 Lean-to addition to rear is not of special architectural
interest.
Listing NGR: SO2844398424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257355
- 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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