East Farmhouse
EAST FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177212
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- East Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- EAST FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177212
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- East Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST 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:
- EAST FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ2917122921
Details
SJ 22 SE
9/179
OSWESTRY RURAL C.P.
CRICKHEATH
East Farmhouse
II*
Farmhouse. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber
framed with plaster and painted brick infill, graded slate roof.
T-plan with 2-bay gabled cross-wing projecting to left. 2 storeys with
attic to cross-wing; framing: close studding below girding beam and
3 square panels above to wall-plate (more irregular to hall range),
V-struts from collars to cross-wing; later 2-storey gabled porch to hall
range has date "RLI/1677" carved on gabled hood above door, carved splat
baluster decoration and moulded bressumer to gable; right gable end of
hall range is clad in C18 red brick (now painted), toothed floor band and
blind lozenge-shaped opening to gable; irregular fenestration, small
mid-C19 casements, one on each floor to left and right of porch and
on each floor to cross-wing; large external lateral red brick stack with
shaft re-built in C20 brick to cross-wing and similar integral stack to
back wall of hall range with painted rubblestone lean-to abutting.
Lean-to has brick bread oven projection. Interior: timber frame (square
panels and close studding) intact throughout; deep-chamfered cross beam
ceiling with heavy joists to main ground-floor room of hall range and
further deep-chamfered ceiling beams with straight-cut stops to upstairs
rooms; late C17 newel staircase with moulded handrail, pointed finials
and knobs rises to attic; several C17 plank doors with fleur-de-lys
strap hinges and massive plank and muntin front door with decorated
strap hinges; partly infilled inglenook fireplaces with chamfered
wooden lintels; roof to cross-wing of standard C17 collar and tie beam
type. Brick-lined cellar has partition wall with close-set vertical
posts. Graded II* as a complete example of a substantial C17 farmhouse
retaining several original internal features.
Listing NGR: SJ2917122921
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255656
- 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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