Barn and Attached Engine House Approximately 30 Yards North of Preston Vale Farmhouse
BARN AND ATTACHED ENGINE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 30 YARDS NORTH OF PRESTON VALE FARMHOUSE, PRESTON VALE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188124
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Attached Engine House Approximately 30 Yards North of Preston Vale Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND ATTACHED ENGINE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 30 YARDS NORTH OF PRESTON VALE FARMHOUSE, PRESTON VALE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188124
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Attached Engine House Approximately 30 Yards North of Preston Vale Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND ATTACHED ENGINE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 30 YARDS NORTH OF PRESTON VALE FARMHOUSE, PRESTON VALE LANE
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:
- BARN AND ATTACHED ENGINE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 30 YARDS NORTH OF PRESTON VALE FARMHOUSE, PRESTON VALE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- South Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Penkridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ9010514617
Details
SJ 91 SW
6/88
PENKRIDGE C.P.
PRESTON VALE LANE
Barn and attached engine house approximately 30 yards north of Preston Vale Farmhouse
GV
II
Barn and engine house. Late C18 barn with mid-C19 engine house and
later alterations. Red brick; slate and plain tile roofs. Aligned
east-west with barn to the west and engine house to the east. Barn to
the left, engine house to the right. Barn: Formerly one storey, now
one and two storeys with dentilled eaves; 5 bays, inserted C20 casements
to the central and right hand bays and small mid-C19 latticed casement
to first floor right; blocked threshing floor doors to left of centre
and right of centre with segmental heads, the former has an inserted
cart entry, the latter an inserted doorway, both with segmental heads,
roughly central inserted doorway with segmental head; bays to left,
right and centre each have 5 tiers of air vents. Engine house: Left
hand bay of one storey and gable-lit loft, right hand bay of one storey;
the left hand bay is obscured by a later attached cowhouse except for a
segmental-headed door to the left; the right hand bay has a door to the
left and a window to the right with latticed panes, both have segmental
heads, square factory-type chimney stack to the rear. Included as an
example illustrating the adaption of an C18 barn for the use of steam
power in the C19. J.E.C. Peters: The Development of Farm Buildings in
Western Lowland Staffordshire up to 1880 (1969) Manchester University
Press PP. 90, 256; Plate 7a.
Listing NGR: SJ9010514617
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271737
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Peters, JEC, The Development of Farm Buildings in Western Lowland Staffordshire up to 1880, (1965), 90
Peters, JEC, The Development of Farm Buildings in Western Lowland Staffordshire up to 1880, (1965), 256
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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