Church House Farmhouse
CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, WAVERTON VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130613
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, WAVERTON VILLAGE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03135/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130613
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, WAVERTON VILLAGE
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:
- CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, WAVERTON VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Waverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 46191 63397
Details
SJ 46 SE WAVERTON C.P. THE VILLAGE (East Side)
2/27 Church House Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse: c.1880 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster. English garden wall bond orange brick with muted diapering. Red sandstone dressings. Stone-coped, kneelered and finialled red tile roof. 3 brick chimneys. 3-storey, 3-bay north front. Stone plinth, quoins and moulded bands at sill and lintel levels. Dentil brick band in top storey, stone copings, kneelers and finials. Central bay has projecting gabled 3-storey porch with basket arched stone entrance with moulded imposts. Half-glazed door and panels behind. 3-light stone mullions above. Left end bay has pairs of similar windows in ground and first floors and a single window in a coped gabled dormer above. Simpler fenestration to right. All windows have applied lead glazing. Extensive service range to rear. Interior: Room to left of entrance has oak fire surround and panelled fitted dresser. 4-panelled doors. Cheese oven with steel doors behind kitchen fireplace.
An interesting neo-vernacular design whose detailing is strangely sombre for Douglas.
Listing NGR: SJ4619163397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55537
- 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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