Church Farmhouse
CHURCH FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055177
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055177
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH 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:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Astley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5292218839
Details
SJ 51 NW
7/3
12.6.87
ASTLEY C.P.
ASTLEY
Church Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse, now house. Mid-to late C18, altered in the early C19 and
again in the mid-to late C19. L-plan; later C18 and C19 additions
at rear. Red brick with plain tile roof. 2 storeys and gable-lit
attic. Dentil brick eaves cornice. Integral brick end stack to
left and external brick end stack to right 3 bays; C18 first-floor
wooden cross windows with segmental relieving arches, and central fixed
Venetian window with curved Y-tracery. Ground floor refenestrated
in the early C19 (including widening); glazing bar sashes (16-pane
to left and 20-pane to right) with painted stone cills and lintels.
Central early C19 door with 6 beaded flush panels, 2-part rectangular
overlight with bars behind, pegged oak frame, and flat hood on shaped
brackets. Late C19 one-storey addition to right with dentil brick
eaves cornice, and boxed 4-pane sashes to front and right-hand return
with painted stone cills and lintels. 2-storey parallel range at
rear with central brick ridge stack. 2-storey rear wing with projecting
bread oven and small integral lateral brick stack. Interior: late
C18 staircase, rising in straight flights, with closed string, rectangular-
section stick balusters (probably a later alteration), ramped moulded
handrail, and beaded square foot newel post. Right-hand ground-floor
room (probably C18 kitchen) has large open fireplace with chamfered
wooden lintel. Left-hand ground-floor front room: C18 raised and
fielded dado panelling. C18 fireplace with lugged architrave, frieze
and moulded cornice, and flanking segmental-headed recesses with moulded
imposts. Small room to rear of left-hand room with evidence of former
corner fireplace. First-floor not inspected. Old photographs show
the house with 3 gabled dormers (see also difference in colour of roof
tiles).
Listing NGR: SJ5292218839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259061
- 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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