Plas Pentre-cefn

PLAS PENTRE-CEFN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1177389
Date first listed:
15-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Plas Pentre-cefn
Statutory Address:
PLAS PENTRE-CEFN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1177389
Date first listed:
15-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Plas Pentre-cefn
Statutory Address 1:
PLAS PENTRE-CEFN

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PLAS PENTRE-CEFN

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:
SJ 23408 27218

Details

SJ 22 NW OSWESTRY RURAL C.P. PENTRE-CEFN

4/199 Plas Pentre-Cefn -

- II

Shown on O.S. map as Pentre-Cefn Hall. Farmhouse. Probably late C17 with later additions and alterations. Painted uncoursed limestone rubble, slate roof. Central hall range of 2 bays flanked by gabled cross-wings. 2 storeys with attics to cross-wings; 1:2:1 windows, C20 casements in stone surrounds; gabled porch in angle with right gable has elliptical outer arch and 6-panel inner door (top panels now glazed), Victorian floor tiles; external stone stacks to cross-wings and back wall of hall range have late C19 yellow brick twin diagonal shafts. Gabled projection to left of rear stack houses staircase, late C19 lean-tos below to left and right. Interior: chamfered cross beam in main ground-floor room; late C17 newel staircase in gabled projection to rear rises to attic, elaborately decorated newels with carved finials, moulded handrail, twisted balusters and pendants. The decoration on the newel posts is identical to that on the newel post of the staircase at Pentre-Uchaf (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ2340827218

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
255676
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.

Ordnance survey map of Plas Pentre-cefn

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