The White House
THE WHITE HOUSE, 16 AND 17
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176780
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The White House
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 16 AND 17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176780
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The White House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 16 AND 17
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:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 16 AND 17
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Acton Burnell
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 53079 02002
Details
ACTON BURNELL C.P. ACTON BURNELL SJ 50 SW 6/12 Nos. 16 and 17 - (The White House) GV II Cottage, latterly divided. C17 with mid-C19 remodelling and addition. Rendered over timber frame with red brick nogging and brick addition; plain tile roof. 2 framed bays with later addition; Tudor Gothic remodelling. One storey and attic. Scalloped barge boards; 2 full gabled dormers with 2-light wooden casements, that to right with returned brick hoodmould; brick stack in front of ridge off-centre to right. 5-window front; 2 central 2-light wooden casements with rendered returned hoodmoulds, blind or blocked window to right with rendered returned hoodmould; 2 one-light casements flanking boarded door to left with C19 gabled wooden porch consisting of chamfered posts, curved braces, boarded tympanum, and pendant finial. Gable end to north has one-light attic casement and 2-light ground-floor casement, both with rendered returned hoodmoulds. Interior: collar and tie-beam roof trusses with queen struts and V-struts; chamfered beams with ogee stops; large open fireplace with chamfered lintel; C17 boarded doors with strap hinges. This house is in a prominent position at the cross-roads in the centre of the village.
Listing NGR: SJ5307902002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259664
- 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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