Alderton Hall Farmhouse
ALDERTON HALL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055408
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Alderton Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ALDERTON HALL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055408
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Alderton Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALDERTON 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:
- ALDERTON HALL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Myddle, Broughton and Harmer Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 49495 23987
Details
SJ 42 SE MYDDLE C.P. ALDERTON
7/87 Alderton Hall Farmhouse -
GV II
Farmhouse. Early C18 with mid- to late C17 core and mid-C19 addition. Dressed grey sandstone incorporating fragments of earlier partly rendered timber frame with red brick nogging on dressed sandstone plinth; dressed red sandstone addition. Slate roof. Framing (at rear): small square panels, 3 from sole plate to wall plate. L-plan. One storey and attic. Moulded plinth, flanking pilaster strips and coved cornice. External stone end stacks with chamfered offsets and brick tops. 1:1:1 bays; wooden cross windows with stone cills and flat stone arches with raised chamfered keystones; 2 first floor gabled semi dormers. Central break has round-arched attic window with stone cill and moulded archivolt with moulded imposts and raised keystone, and parapeted gable above with moulded coping. Central 4-panelled door (lower 2 panels flush beaded) with 2-part rectangular overlight, moulded reveals, pulvinated frieze and triangular pediment. Probably mid-C19 one-storey dressed red sandstone kitchen wing at rear with internal brick end stack. 2-bay open lean-to in angle. Interior: C17 timber framed square-panelled cross walls. Large open fireplace in left-hand ground-floor room with chamfered and ogee-stopped lintel. Arched recess in right-hand ground- floor room. Alderton Hall Farm was probably the Alderton Hall occupied by members of the Downton family from the late C16 to the end of the C17 (Richard Gough, Antiquities and Memoyres of the Parish of Myddle). The earlier part of the building must date from their time but the early C18 remodelling probably post-dates Gough's account (written in 1701). Richard Gough, Ed. D. Hey, The History of Myddle, Penguin (1981), pp.211-216. David G. Hey, An English Rural Community: Myddle Under the Tudors and Stuarts, Leicester University Press (1974), pp.107- 113.
Listing NGR: SJ4949523987
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260081
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hey, D, An English Rural Community Myddle Under the Tudors and Stuarts, (1974), 107-13
Gough, R, Antiquityes and Memoryes of the Parish of Myddle, (1701)
Gough, , Hey, , The History of Myddle, (1981), 211-6
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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