Lower House
LOWER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175134
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175134
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER HOUSE
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:
- LOWER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Church Pulverbatch
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4305802887
Details
SJ 40 SW CHURCH PULVERBATCH C.P. CHURCH PULVERBATCH
8/26 Lower House (formerly
- listed as Lower House
29.1.52 including gate piers)
GV II
Shown on O.S. map as Lower House Farmhouse.
Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid-C18 appearance, incorporating C17 house,
later additions and alterations. Red brick (random bond) on moulded stone
plinth with plastered stone angle quoins and ashlar parapet, plain tile
roofs. C18 facade to 3-bay timber framed house with 2 gabled ranges at
right-angles to rear. 2 1/2 storeys; 5 bays, glazing bar sashes (now horned)
with gauged heads and raised plastered keystones, moulded stone cills; attic
storey lit by 3 glazing bar sashes, has richly moulded cornice marking
position of former eaves (interrupted under windows); central entrance
6-panel door (top panels glazed) under canopied hood supported on scrolled
cast-iron brackets; prominent external stepped end stack to left and integral
end stack to right. Salop Fire Insurance Plate numbered 5335 over central
first-floor window. Interior: staircase to central hall with elegant turned
balusters much repaired in late C20; C17 panelling (probably not in situ)
on right wall of hall; principal rafters and struts of roof of C17 house
exposed in attic. B.o.E., p.100.
Listing NGR: SJ4305802887
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259327
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 100
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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