Smethcote Manor
SMETHCOTE MANOR, PLEX ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177647
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Smethcote Manor
- Statutory Address:
- SMETHCOTE MANOR, PLEX ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177647
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Smethcote Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMETHCOTE MANOR, PLEX ROAD
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:
- SMETHCOTE MANOR, PLEX ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hadnall
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5035520900
Details
SJ 52 SW
8/49
28.10.60
HADNALL C.P.
PLEX ROAD
(east side)
Smethcote Manor
(formerly listed as Smethcote)
GV
II
Farmhouse. Early and mid-C17 with partial mid-C19 rebuilding. Timber
framed with painted brick nogging on red sandstone plinth, a small
part rebuilt in brick painted to represent framing; slate roofs. Framing:
small square panels (5 from sole plate to wall plate) with long straight
tension brace. Large square panels (3 from sole plate to wall plate)
with short straight corner brace. T-plan; large baffle-entry range
of 2 framed bays with gabled cross wing of 2 framed bays. 2 storeys
and attic. South (garden) front: hall range with large brick ridge
stack off-centre to right, 2 gabled eaves dormers with 2-light small-
paned casements, and rooflight to left. Two pairs of small-paned first-
floor wooden casements to left and C19 three-light segmental-headed
wooden-framed metal casement to right; central ground-floor C19 three-
light wooden casement, small C20 wooden casement to left and C19 three-
light segmental-headed window to right. Boarded door between first
and second windows from right with projecting late C19 brick porch
and outbuilding in front. Right-hand gable end has collar and tie-
beam truss with queen struts and V-struts. Projecting cross wing to
left with integral brick lateral stack to left and collar and tie-
beam truss with queen struts in gable; first-floor C20 three-light
small-paned wooden casement and pair of ground-floor C20 small-paned
French casements. One storey and attic C18 and C19 brick service
wing set back to right. North (entrance) front: 2 dormers. Hall range
with C19 and C20 two- and 3-light small-paned wooden casements; C20
door with early C19 doorcase consisting of pierced panelled pilaster
strips and shaped brackets supporting triangular pediment. Cross wing
with small-paned 2-light attic casements, probably C18 first-floor
horizontal-sliding glazing bar sashes and ground-floor C20 two-light
casement. Sun fire insurance plate above west door of cross wing
(No. 648143). Interior: chamfered ceiling beams, cross-beamed in cross
wing. Large open fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. Old dog-
leg wooden staircase with rectangular balusters; winder stair to attic.
Listing NGR: SJ5035520900
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260043
- 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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