Fron Farmhouse
Fron Farmhouse, Fron
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178162
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fron Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Fron Farmhouse, Fron
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 1999-08-20
- Reference:
- IOE01/01909/02
- Rights:
- © Mr John Garton - Jones. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178162
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fron Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Fron Farmhouse, Fron
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:
- Fron Farmhouse, Fron
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weston Rhyn
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 26594 35292
Details
SJ 23 NE
1/101
WESTON RHYN CP
FRON
Fron Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Dated 1692 with later additions and alterations and extension dated 1905. Painted uncoursed limestone rubble with roughly dressed angle quoins; slate roofs. Original L-plan with 1905 addition in angle to left.
Two storeys plus gable-lit attic to cross-wing of C17 part. Mainly early C20 casements, one on each floor to gable of cross-wing and to gable of C20 addition. Back wall has similar windows, irregularly spaced on five different levels, including one lighting staircase. Entrance through early C20 door under contemporary lean-to hood to left of cross-wing. External end stack to left of main range and large external lateral stack of narrow red bricks and rubblestone to cross wing, tops of both rebuilt in early C20 red brick. Contemporary red brick ridge stack to rear of C20 addition. Roof apparently reconstructed 1905 with contemporary projecting double-purlin ends to gables. Early C20 datestone "1692" to apex of cross-wing gable and date "1905" carved on tie beam of C20 addition. C19 rubblestone outbuildings (partly enclosing external stack) attached to right wall of cross-wing and projecting to front.
INTERIOR: front room of cross-wing has chamfered spine beams with straight-cut stops and infilled inglenook fireplace to right wall. C17 dog-leg staircase to left of passage in main range and in line with entrance rises to attic and has unusually carved splat balusters, moulded handrail and plain newel-posts.
Listing NGR: SJ2659435292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255815
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 21-Jun-2026 at 17:47:57.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.