Lower Broughton Farmhouse
LOWER BROUGHTON FARMHOUSE, LOWER BROUGHTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054511
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Broughton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER BROUGHTON FARMHOUSE, LOWER BROUGHTON
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054511
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Broughton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER BROUGHTON FARMHOUSE, LOWER BROUGHTON
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 BROUGHTON FARMHOUSE, LOWER BROUGHTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lydham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 31361 90597
Details
SO 39 SW LYDHAM C.P. LOWER BROUGHTON
2/160 Lower Broughton Farmhouse -
GV II Farmhouse. Probably C15 with C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Rendered timber frame, uncoursed rubble plinth and refaced end walls, rendered brick additions to rear, and graded slate roof. Former 2-framed bay open hall with screens passage, 2 framed bay low end and one framed bay high end. 2 storeys with gable-lit attic. Framing: square panels. Stack off- centre to left off-ridge to front. Stack to left at rear and end stack to C20 wing. 4-window front; 3 first floor C19 casements to right and glazing bar sash to left; early C19 ground floor glazing bar sash to left, and C20 bowed casement off-centre to right. Half-glazed door with gabled porch off-centre to left between first and second windows from left, and C19 boarded door to right with 3-light overlight. Exposed queen strut truss in right-hand gable end. Interior: queen strut roof trusses with V-struts above, trenched double purlins, windbraces, and smoke blackening in hall and screens bays; hall has central jointed-cruck truss with continuous chamfer, arch bracing to collar with V-struts above, and Alcock apex type E. Inserted stack and ground floor fire- place with moulded straight-sided arched lintel. Alcock,
Listing NGR: SO3136190597
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257075
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)
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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