Rectory Farmhouse
RECTORY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177815
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177815
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORY 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:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolstaston
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 45122 98481
Details
SO 4598 WOOLSTASTON C.P. WOOLSTASTON
10/108 Rectory Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings, now farmhouse. Mid and late C17 with late C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed with plastered infill, partly rendered with planted and painted timbers; high sandstone rubble plinth to right; plain tile roof. Approximately 5 framed bays aligned roughly north-south with attached former farmbuilding of 2 framed bays to north; baffle-entry south end. Framing: square panels (3 and 4 from sole plate to wall plate) with short corner braces. One storey and attic. East front: six C19 and C20 timber framed gabled eaves dormers; brick ridge stack off-centre to left, central brick stack behind ridge and integral lateral brick stack to-front. 7-window front; late C19 and C20 2 and 3-light wooden casements. Pair of C20 half-glazed doors to left-with gabled wooden porch; central lean-to brick porch with C20 glazed door in left- hand return and bread oven projecting to right; glazed door off-centre to right. Right+hand gable end has collar and tie-beam truss with v-struts; left-hand gable end with C19 canted bay. Interior: chamfered beams and timber framed cross walls; introduced C17 panelling, said to have come from Woolstaston Hall (q.v.) probably when it was partly demolished in the late C18. It is also said that the south end of the farmhouse is constructed from reused timber, also possibly taken from the Hall when it was partly demolished. V.C.H., Vol VIII, p 171.
Listing NGR: SO4512298481
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259649
- 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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