Cross Lanes Farmhouse

CROSS LANES FARMHOUSE, CRUISE HILL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1157513
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1954
List Entry Name:
Cross Lanes Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
CROSS LANES FARMHOUSE, CRUISE HILL LANE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1157513
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1954
List Entry Name:
Cross Lanes Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
CROSS LANES FARMHOUSE, CRUISE HILL LANE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CROSS LANES FARMHOUSE, CRUISE HILL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Redditch (District Authority)
Parish:
Feckenham
National Grid Reference:
SP 00582 64430

Details

REDDITCH B CRUISE HILL LANE (west side) SP 06 SW

4/46 Cross Lanes Farmhouse

10.4.54

- II

Farmhouse. c1620, with mid-C19 alterations. Timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill, brick replacement walling and additions and plain tiled roofs. 'H-plan; central hall range of two framed bays aligned roughly east/west with small framed wing at centre of north elevation; cross-wing of two framed bays at east end has central chimney and three star-shaped stacks with joint cap; also intersecting service wing of two framed bays at west end with central chimney, two diagonal stacks to west side of roof, small framed projection at centre of west side to right of which is a lean-to addition enclosing a large external chimney with tall stack. Two storeys and attic. Framing: main part has five panels and service wing has four panels from sill to wall-plate; long straight braces across lower corners at first floor level; projecting small additions have three panels from sill to wall-plate; collar and tie-beam trusses with three struts to collar and either a concave or straight V-strut in apex; east cross-wing has close-set studding at ground floor level, three rows of panels at first floor level with long straight braces across lower corners; attic storey is jettied at gable ends on decoratively carved consoles; collar and tie-beam trusses with two collars, five struts to lower collar (only four at north end) and two to upper collar with concave V-strut in apex. South entrance elevation: central hall range has a 4-light casement and a rectangular metal barred window on the ground floor, a 3-light casement on the first floor and main entrance to right with a flat canopy on shaped brackets and a 4- panelled door. Service wing gable end to left has a 2-light ground floor and 3-light first floor casement, a door to right with flat canopy on brackets and a tiled weathering at tie-beam level; 2-light ground floor casement with cambered head in angle with hall part. East cross-wing gable end has a ground and first floor 3-light casement, an attic light and a plank weathering at tie- beam level. Interior not inspected but said to be remodelled. A fire insurance mark is partly visible on the north end of the east cross-wing. (BoE, p 152).

Listing NGR: SP0058264430

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Legacy System number:
156522
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 152

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Cross Lanes Farmhouse

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