Newnham Hall Farmhouse
NEWNHAM HALL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055690
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Newnham Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- NEWNHAM HALL FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09268/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055690
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Newnham Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWNHAM 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:
- NEWNHAM HALL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pontesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41163 09960
Details
SJ 40 NW PONTESBURY C.P. -
4/144 Newnham Hall - Farmhouse (formerly listed as Newnham) 29.1.52 GV II
Farmhouse. 1723, for John Nicholls, re-modelled and eaves raised early C19 with later additions and alterations. Red brick with stuccoed front, coped verges on kneelers, slate roofs and end stacks. Original house L-shaped with a mid-C19 addition in angle to rear. 3 storeys; brick storey bands (c.1723) at first and second floor levels to left and right-hand returns and dentilled eaves cornices (early to mid-C19) to short range of L and to mid-C19 addition. 5-bay front; glazing bar sashes and central porch with 2 pairs of Tuscan columns over half-glazed door with rectangular overlight; stuccoed imitation quoins. Twin blocked oval-shaped openings to original gables (former attic windows) and late C19 canted bay window to left-hand return; datestone N above second storey floor band to right-hand return. Late C19 J M lean-to against right-hand gable end with mid-C20 flat-roofed 1723 extension in front, also to right. Interior: chamfered beams in cellars probably re-used from earlier house on site. V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.260.
Listing NGR: SJ4116309960
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259446
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1968), 260
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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