Lowerbrook Farmhouse
LOWERBROOK FARMHOUSE, SMITHY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138928
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Lowerbrook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWERBROOK FARMHOUSE, SMITHY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138928
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Lowerbrook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWERBROOK 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:
- LOWERBROOK FARMHOUSE, SMITHY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rainow
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 95321 76505
Details
SJ 97 NE RAINOW C.P. SMITHY LANE (West Side)
3/152 Lowerbrook Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse: early C18 with C20 alterations. Coursed squared buff sandstone rubble. Partly Kerridge stone-slate, partly Welsh slate roof, long central ridge chimney. Square in plan. 2½-storey, symmetrical 3-bay west front. End bays have 3-light C20 wooden casements on 1st 2 storeys and 3-light chamfered stone mullions in ½ storey, with leaded lights. Semi-circular rubble arched doorcase. To rear similar mullioned windows in ½ storey and a taller 3 and 4-light weakly chamfered stone mullions on ground storey. Interior: Central passage with pair of rooms to either side and fireplaces in the partition walls. 1st 2 flight of dogleg staircase have moulded handrail and turned column balusters. Number of 2-panelled doors with raised fields"and wooden handles and latches, and a 4-board door with iron-strap hinges. Some exposed sawn chamfered and stopped ceiling beams. Remains of brick oven in one chimney breast.
An unusual plan for the area, of double-pile type with a central stack.
Listing NGR: SJ9532176505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58063
- 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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