Eye Farmhouse
EYE FARMHOUSE, B 4380
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175542
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Eye Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- EYE FARMHOUSE, B 4380
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175542
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Eye Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- EYE FARMHOUSE, B 4380
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:
- EYE FARMHOUSE, B 4380
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leighton and Eaton Constantine
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 60226 05108
Details
LEIGHTON AND EATON B4380 (south side) SJ 60 NW CONSTANTINE C.P. 2/76 Eye Farmhouse (Previously listed as "Eye Farm") 8.5.72 II Farmhouse, now house. Probably C14 or C15, re-modelled late C16 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with plaster infill on brick plinth, plain tile roof. Original plan probably a single-bay open hall with smoke bay, service bay to south and solar to north; converted to lobby- entry plan, first floor and attic inserted and re-roofed in late C16. 2 storey and gable-lit attic; framing: irregular square and rectangular panels, 15 across and 2 from girding beam to wall-plate, short straight tension braces; close-set vertical posts below with long straight tension braces, V-struts from collars to gable ends; irregular fenestration, late C20 casements on each floor to left and right of C17 nail-studded door to left of centre, 4 late C20 raking eaves dormers in roof slope to rear; prominent red brick ridge stack with twin diagonal shafts immediately above doorway and another (C19 in imitation) in roof slope in front to right; another plank and muntin door to rear. Late C19 painted brick addition set back to left. Interior: substantially restored late C20; timber frame exposed throughout (square panels and close-set vertical posts); deep-chamfered cross beam ceiling with heavy joists and ogee stops in main ground-floor room (former hall) to right of ridge stack; inglenook fireplaces with chamfered wooden lintels; infilled Tudor-arch doorway on ground floor between former hall and solar and 2 on first floor at junction between left-hand truss of hall and chimney bay; late C16 Queen-strut roof in 5 bays with double purlins and straight windbraces; jowled wall-posts of chimney bay cut through to allow insertion of attic.
Listing NGR: SJ6022605108
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258859
- 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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