Madam's Farm House
MADAM'S FARM HOUSE, RAVENS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138568
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Madam's Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- MADAM'S FARM HOUSE, RAVENS LANE
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- Date:
- 2000-09-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/01182/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138568
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Madam's Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MADAM'S FARM HOUSE, RAVENS 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:
- MADAM'S FARM HOUSE, RAVENS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burland and Acton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 62504 52621
Details
ACTON C.P. RAVENS LANE SJ 65 SW 4/21 Madam's Farm house 12 January 1967 - II
Former dowerhouse of Dorfold Estate, now private house. Late C18 but with earlier origins. Red brick, in English Garden Wall Bond to facade, Flemish Bond to gables and rear elevation. Roof of slates in diminishing courses. 3 storey, 3 bays. Projecting brick plinth. Door with six fielded panels and fanlight above, in stone doorcase with engaged Doric columns, triglyph dosserets and open pediment. Sashes with exposed weight boxes, glazing bars, stone sills and flat brick-on-edge arches. Gable end stacks and barge boards. The rear (east) wing, which completes a "T" shaped plan, has a good oak boarded door. Interior: Six-panel doors on HL hinges and some wide boarded doors. Some doors are hung on cranked butt hinges the blades of which are morticed and wedged into the hanging stiles. Chamfered beams and exposed joists.
Listing NGR: SJ6250452621
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56933
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,
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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