Rookery Farmhouse
ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136869
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, CHESTER ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11920/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136869
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, CHESTER ROAD
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:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, CHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelsall
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 52027 68005
Details
SJ 56 NW KELSALL C.P. CHESTER ROAD (South Side)
3/40 Rookery Farmhouse.
22/10/1952 II
Farmhouse: early C17 with later small additions and some C20 alterations. Timber framed with brick and plastered nogging. Additions in washed brick. Plastic tile roof, 1 gable and 1 central ridge brick chimney. Lobby-entry plan with crosswing. 2-storey, 4-bay front. Framing of 2 levels of tall rectangular panels with angle braces above, passing braces below. Right end bay is a projecting gabled wing with 2 small inserted windows. Truss of tiebeam, studs, collar and 2 diagonal struts above. Adjacent is lean-to porch with C20 door, 2 and 3-light casements in remainder with 1 in flat roofed dormer. To rear crosswing shows small-framing, slightly jettied tiebeam with dentilated lower edge. Similar treatment to sill now partly blocked original window. Brick lean-to s to side and rear. Interior: entry against ashlar sandstone baffle. Hall to left has moulded stone heck post and bead moulded wooden bressumer. Similar moulding to ceiling beam which is carried on a chamfered and stopped post. Similar beam and post in the parlour. 2, 4-board doors with iron strap hinges.
Listing NGR: SJ5202768005
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55744
- 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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