Wigsey Farmhouse
WIGSEY FARMHOUSE, PADDOCK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083579
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wigsey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WIGSEY FARMHOUSE, PADDOCK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083579
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wigsey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WIGSEY FARMHOUSE, PADDOCK LANE
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:
- WIGSEY FARMHOUSE, PADDOCK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Warburton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 70066 89521
Details
SJ 78 NW WARBURTON PADDOCK LANE (south side)
6/183 Wigsey Farmhouse -
G.V. II
Farmhouse. C17 with later additions and alterations. English garden wall bond brick with stone plinth and C20 roof covering. 3-unit baffle-entry plan with 2 storeys, a 2-storey wing and a lean-to at rear and a C19 porch. 3 bays, bays 1 and 2 showing signs of being raised in height, bay 3 projecting and showing no such signs. Each bay has a 4-light casement with flat brick arch at ground floor and 3 or 4-light casement at first floor. 2 ridge chimney stacks and Douglas-style porch (c.1880). Gable shows signs of raised roofline. Rear wing appears to be later but incorporates a 2-light ovolo-moulded timber mullion window of C17. A cruck is concealed between units 1 and 2. Chamfered beams to ground floor, ovolo-moulded to house-part which includes a spere and bressumer beam. The spere has a chamfered post with stepped stop.
Listing NGR: SJ7006689521
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212944
- 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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