Barn Approximately 100 Metres to North-west of Acton Farmhouse
BARN APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES TO NORTH-WEST OF ACTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054530
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Barn Approximately 100 Metres to North-west of Acton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES TO NORTH-WEST OF ACTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054530
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Barn Approximately 100 Metres to North-west of Acton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES TO NORTH-WEST OF ACTON 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:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES TO NORTH-WEST OF ACTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lydbury North
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 31362 84955
Details
SO 38 SW LYDBURY NORTH C.P. ACTON
9/98 Barn approximately - 100 metres to north-west of Acton House Farmhouse GV II House, now barn. C15 with C17 and mid to late C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed with weatherboarding and C20 corrugated iron cladding to south, coursed limestone rubble plinth and addition to north; corrugated iron and stone slate roof, hipped over C19 cross wing to north with catslide over outshut. Former open hall house of 3 framed bays with one framed bay addition to south and C19 cross wing to north. Framing: square panels. One storey with inserted C19 floor in third framed bay from south and 2 storey cross wing. West front: central gabled eaves loft dormer with boarded loft door and boarded loft door in cross wing to left. 2 ground floor boarded doors. Interior: 3 full cruck trusses; 2 trusses to north with Alcock apex type B; former hall cruck truss to south with continuous chamfer to lower part of blades, now removed arched bracing, cambered collar, inclined queen struts above collar, and Alcock apex type L2. Queen strut truss between first and second bays from south; double staggered-purlin roof. N.W. Alcock, Cruck Construction. An Introduction and Catalogue, C.B.A., 1981, p.96.
Listing NGR: SO3136284955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257012
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981), 96
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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