Worthen Hall Farmhouse
WORTHEN HALL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055016
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Worthen Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WORTHEN HALL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055016
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Worthen Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORTHEN HALL 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:
- WORTHEN HALL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Worthen with Shelve
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 32908 04805
Details
WORTHEN C.P. WORTHEN SJ 30 SW
5/168 Worthen Hall Farmhouse
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- II
Farmhouse. C1590 for Richard Powell with later additions and alterations. Roughcast concealing timber frame with brick infill; slate roofs. T-plan comprising gabled cross-wing to left and hall range apparently of 3½ framed bays to right. 2 storeys and gable-lit attics. FRAMING: parts of square panels visible beneath render to cross-wing with overhanging first floor to hall range. C20 fenestration, one casement on each floor to cross-wing with 3 on first floor of hall range and one to either side of roughly central gabled porch with round- headed outer arch; inner 6-panel door has rectangular barred overlight. 2 massive external stone stacks with red brick shafts to back wall of hall range and similar lateral stack to cross-wing. INTERIOR: inspection not possible at time of resurvey (December 1985) but said to have original oak panelling with curious painted decoration to attics and deep-chamfered ceiling beams throughout. Richard Powell, a wealthy merchant, was Bailiff of Shrewsbury in 1573 and 1591. Trans. Salop Arch Soc, Series 4, Vol 9. (1923/4), pp 227-28.
Listing NGR: SJ3290804805
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257498
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society in Series 4, Vol. 9, (1924), 227-28
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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