Besford Grange Farmhouse and Attached Railings
BESFORD GRANGE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055396
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Besford Grange Farmhouse and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- BESFORD GRANGE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08306/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055396
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Besford Grange Farmhouse and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BESFORD GRANGE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
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:
- BESFORD GRANGE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Moreton Corbet and Lee Brockhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 55069 24987
Details
SJ 52 SE MORETON CORBET C.P. BESFORD
9/59 Besford Grange Farmhouse 6.5.75 and attached railings (formerly listed as Besford Grange)
GV II
Farmhouse and attached railings. Late C18 with late C20 alterations at rear. Red brick with plain tile roofs. L-plan. 2 storeys. Toothed and dentil brick eaves cornice and parapeted gable ends with moulded stone kneelers and stone copings. External brick end stacks. 3 bays; glazing bar sashes with gauged brick heads and painted stone lintels. Central door with 8 raised and fielded panels, lugged moulded architrave, radial fanlight and open triangular-pedimented hood on scrolled brackets. Rear wing reduced in length in C20, with parapeted gable end and external brick lateral stack. C20 lean-to in angle. Adjoining wall and railings: brick wall with stone coping attached to right. Railings to front; low brick wall with stone coping, plain railings, square-section standards with finials and stanchions, and square brick end piers with pyramidal stone caps. Interior: C18 staircase, altered in late C20; formerly dog-leg, now one flight with landings; open string, turned balusters (2 per tread), ramped moulded handrail, curtail with turned foot newel, and ramped wainscot panelling. Radial fanlight over passage adjacent to staircase. Dentil cornice in left-hand ground-floor room. Doors with 6 raised and fielded panels and moulded architraves.
Listing NGR: SJ5506924987
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260053
- 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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