The Lea Gates
THE LEA GATES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055365
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Lea Gates
- Statutory Address:
- THE LEA GATES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055365
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Lea Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LEA GATES
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:
- THE LEA GATES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Child's Ercall
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 66850 26608
Details
CHILD'S ERCALL C.P. HUNGRYHATTON SJ 62 NE SJ 6680 2657 7/26 - The Lea Gates 16.4.86 - II
Cottage, latterly farmbuilding, now disused. Circa 1600 with probably C18 alterations. Timber framed with red brick nogging, right-hand gable end re- built in dressed red sandstone; corrugated-iron roof. Framing: large square panels (2 from sole plate to wall plate) with short straight corner braces. single-cell end lobby-entry plan. One storey and gable-lit attic. Integral brick end stack to right with weathering. 2 central open panels, possibly former door and window or later alterations made when the cottage became an agricultural building. Boarded door to right. Collar and tie-beam truss in left-hand gable end with queen struts. One-storey lean-to addition to right- hand gable end with brick corner stack and door to front. Interior: chamfered spine beam with ogee stops; plain joists. Large open fireplace with dressed sandstone reveals and chamfered and stopped wooden lintel. Chamfered corner post. Probably C19 stud partitions on each floor. Staircase in left-hand front corner. Collar and tie-beam roof truss with queen struts. Purlins with straight wind braces. The right-hand end wall was-probably rebuilt in sandstone in the C18.
Listing NGR: SJ6685026608
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260176
- 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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