Venus Bank Farmhouse
VENUS BANK FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176251
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Venus Bank Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- VENUS BANK FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176251
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Venus Bank Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- VENUS BANK FARMHOUSE
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:
- VENUS BANK FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Worthen with Shelve
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 35317 01250
Details
WORTHEN C.P. - SJ 30 SE
6/99 Venus Bank Farmhouse
- 21/3/68
- II
Farmhouse. C1600 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with painted brick infill, cladding and rebuilding, roughcast to rear of hall range; concrete tile roof. Hall range apparently of 4 framed bays with 11-bay cross-wing projecting to right. 2 storeys. Framing: hall range has irregular small square panels, 4 from cill to wall- plate, with long and short straight tension braces, V-struts from collar to right gable end; cross-wing has close studding beneath girding beam with long straight tension braces, one square panel above and jowled wall-posts to gable. Late C19 fenestration to hall range and left side of cross-wing; one 3-light casement on each floor to hall range with small top-hung casement to left and one segemental-headed 3-light casement on ground-floor of cross-wing. C20 nail-studded door in angle between ranges. Late C20 casements to right gable end of hall range and right side of cross-wing including to prominent contempory gabled dormer in roof slope. Prominent axial rubblestone ridge stack in 2 sections directly above door to hall range and external rubblestone stack (with C20 red brick top) to gable of cross-wing. C19 rubblestone lean-to dairy with plain tile roof to rear on right of hall range. Interior: inspection not possible at time of resurvey (December 1985) but noted as having chamfered cross-beam ceiling to cross-wing; left ground-floor room of hall range has massive deep-chamfered cross-beam with heavy joists. C20 stone fireplaces to both hall range and cross- wing.
Listing NGR: SJ3531701250
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257431
- 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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