Stonehouse Farmhouse
STONEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, SMITHY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130637
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Stonehouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- STONEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, SMITHY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130637
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Stonehouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- STONEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, SMITHY 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:
- STONEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, SMITHY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mouldsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 50211 70414
Details
SJ 57 SW MOULDSWORTH C P SMITHY LANE (West Side)
2/54 Stonehouse Farmhouse.
1/3/1967 II
Formerly a farmhouse, now a house: late C16/early C17 with repairs dated 1674. C18 outshut and extension of early C19. Ashlar grey sandstone (1 bay in red brick); concrete tile roof and 3 brick chimneys. Long rectangular plan with outshut. 2-storey, 5-bay front. Chamfered plinth, cyma-moulded band at 1st floor. Right end bay has rebated, cyma-moulded 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. Adjacent is a 2-storey porch with stone-coped gables, carved kneelers and finials. Rebated, cyma-moulded 4-centred arched entrance to porch with stone seats. C20 door behind. Above is a plaque reading THIS HOUSE WAS REPAIRED BY M JOHN DAVIES OF MANDALAY ANNO DOM 1674, with 2 blank shields. Mullioned and transomed window in upper storey and to the sides of the porch. 3rd bay has rebated mullioned windows and 2nd bay, 4-light mullioned and transomed windows to the hall and main chamber above. Left end bay is brick on stone plinth with cambered heads to casements. Interior: 2 of the lower rooms have cambered deeply chamfered ceiling beams, the other a flat chamfered beam with flat and fillet stop. Remaining fittings C18 or C19 but some wattle and daub survives. Mandalay is an early form of nearby Manley.
Listing NGR: SJ5021170414
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55503
- 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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