The Firs Farmhouse
THE FIRS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096911
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Firs Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE FIRS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096911
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Firs Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FIRS 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:
- THE FIRS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Astley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 53008 18717
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:_
ASTLEY SJ 51 NW 1584-0/7/10000 The Firs Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Mid-late C18. Red brick in Flemish Bond, plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic with wing to rear left and later infill to rear right; 3 bays. Central part-glazed door in wooden frame flanked on ground and first floor by segmentally- arched 3-light windows now with C20 iron casements; segmentally- arched recess over the door. Dentilled eaves. Upstanding verges with brick copings and projecting end stacks. Left return: wing has 2 altered windows each beneath broader segmental arch. Interior: basket-arched fireplace recesses to ground floor on right and in rear wing. Original beamed ceilings with twin spine beams; the date "1760" set out in nailheads on spine beam in ground floor right room. Stair in rear wing has square newels and rectangular rods and rises to the attic. Cast-iron fire baskets in first floor rooms.
Listing NGR: SJ5300818717
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361541
- 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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