Lower Farmhouse
LOWER FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055203
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055203
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER 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 FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 33949 09605
Details
SJ 30 NW WESTBURY C.P. VENNINGTON
8/119 Lower Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse. Late C16 and mid-C17 with mid-C19 alterations and additions. Rendered timber frame, partly rebuilt and extended in painted and coursed sandstone rubble and brick;slate roof. 2 framed bays aligned north-south with projecting gabled probable former porch to east, and later addition to north. 2 storeys. East front: plinth to north; dentil brick eaves cornice; brick ridge stack off-centre to left (rebuilt above ridge in C20 brick) and integral brick end stack to right. Left-hand part with 2 first-floor C19 segmental-headed small- paned wooden casements, ground floor late C20 two-light wooden casement to left and segmental-headed 6-panelled door (top 2 panels glazed) to right; projecting probable former porch off-centre to right with jettied first floor, jettied gable with shaped brackets and moulded barge boards and 3-light wooden casement on each floor; C19 part set-back to right with segmental-headed wooden mullioned and transomed windows, 2 to first floor and one to ground floor at right. C19 timber framed brick and stone lean-to addition to left. Interior: plain chamfered beams and joists; 2 large open fireplaces; ground floor of gabled probable former porch has chamfered joists, beams and dragon beams with bar stops; C19 cast iron pump in lean-to to south has circular shaft with moulded rings, fluted top with splayed spout and curved handle and damaged fluted domed cap. V.C.H. Vol. VIII, p. 303; C. Ryan, The evolution of the peasant house in Shropshire. Medieval - c.1850. The Parish of Westbury, Unpublished thesis (October 1979), Manchester University, pp. 162-3.
Listing NGR: SJ3394909605
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259026
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 303
Ryan, C, The Evolution of the Peasant House in Shropshire Medieval c1850 The Parish of Westbury, (), 162-3
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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