Bishop's House
BISHOP'S HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177104
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop's House
- Statutory Address:
- BISHOP'S HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177104
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BISHOP'S 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:
- BISHOP'S HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welshampton and Lyneal
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 42213 38096
Details
WELSHAMPTON C.P. - SJ 43 NW 5/190 Bishop's House - GV II Farmhouse, now house. Early C17 remodelling of earlier building with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with red brick infill (some of herringbone pattern); machine tile roof. T-plan comprising main range of 3-unit baffle-entry plan with shorter range to rear. One storey and attic to main range, 2 storeys and gable-lit attic to rear range. Framing. Main range has vertical posts with short straight tension braces and two surviving horizontal members, latter mainly replaced by later light rectangular panels, 6 from cill to wall-plate. Close studding to left gable end mainly concealed by C19 brick cladding, which extends to front. Hewn jetty to right gable end has renewed bressumer and is partly underbuilt in early C20 red brick. Back wall has close-set vertical posts to right of rear range. This has close-set vertical posts to ground floor and 2 square and rectangular panels with short straight braces above. Hewn jetty to gable end, which has chamfered bressumer with straight-cut stops and queen- strut truss. Main range has two C19 casements to left (left segmental- headed) and one to right of C19 boarded door with gabled hood immediately to right of centre. Raking eaves dormer directly above casement to left of door. Ridge stack with 3 attached diagonal shafts and toothed band to base rebuilt in late C20 brown brick but probably to original form. Integral end stack to left also rebuilt in late C20 brown brick. Integral end stack to rear range. Red brick lean-tos to left gable end and to left side of rear range. Interior. Inspection not possible at time of resurvey (February 1987) but likely to be of interest. Salop County Sites and Monuments Record, PRN 15953.
Listing NGR: SJ4221338096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260887
- 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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