Whitehough
Whitehough, Ipstones
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1189010
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehough
- Statutory Address:
- Whitehough, Ipstones
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1189010
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehough
- Statutory Address 1:
- Whitehough, Ipstones
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:
- Whitehough, Ipstones
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ipstones
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 01337 51293
Details
SK 05 SW
6/171
IPSTONES C.P
Whitehough
2.5.53
GV
II*
Large farmhouse. C17 with early C18 additions and alterations, also mid C19 alterations. Coursed dressed and squared stone of fine quality; tiled roof; verge parapets on corbelled kneelers with rounded moulding copings. Massive almost turret-like stack to ridge of main range, end stacks to C18 wing.
Complex plan; formerly T-shaped, now more L-shaped. Entrance front to north of two storeys and gable-lit attics in two parts; set-back C17 range to left of two flush gables; part strings to floor levels; circular owl holes to apices over scattered fenestration mainly labelled chamfered mullioned openings of two and three lights; large inserted C18 stair window to left side of right-hand gable: twelve lights, two mullions and three transomes, all chamfered, blind two-light cellar windows and cruciform window against return angle and over entrance; boarded door and two-light overlight. Widely-projecting C18 wing to right; raised bands at ceiling levels; three cruciform casement windows to first floor over three-light chamfered mullioned casements to outer ground floor; central entrance has voussoirs implied in lintel; boarded door. Garden front: remodelled in C18, also has three cruciform casements to first floor and two-storey three-sided stone mullions and transomed bay window to projecting right-hand gable. Similar details to other sides.
Interior: C18 dog-leg stair has open string and two-column balusters to each tread; early C18 oak panelling to hall at head of stairs, two panels carved in light relief with foliage; massive but unadorned fireplace to ground floor.
Listing NGR: SK0133751293
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 274663
- 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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