Gillowfold Farmhouse

GILLOWFOLD FARMHOUSE, GILLOWFOLD LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1190053
Date first listed:
13-Apr-1951
List Entry Name:
Gillowfold Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
GILLOWFOLD FARMHOUSE, GILLOWFOLD LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1190053
Date first listed:
13-Apr-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Gillowfold Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
GILLOWFOLD FARMHOUSE, GILLOWFOLD 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GILLOWFOLD FARMHOUSE, GILLOWFOLD LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:
Biddulph
National Grid Reference:
SJ 88532 58582

Details

BIDDULPH C.P. GILLOWFOLD LANE SJ 85 NE 7/30 Gillowfold Farmhouse (formerly - listed under Mow Lane) 13.4.51 - II

Farmhouse, now divided into 2 units. C15 core with wing of 1676 and mid-C18 wing and additions. Coursed stone to C17 part, red brick to C19 wing; blue machine tile roofs; end stacks. 'T'-plan derived from hall and cross wing, extended to east. 2-storey, 4-window front in 2 parts: gabled stone wing to right with verge parapets and shaped kneelers; labelled 2-light chamfer mullion attic window to apex and built into apex of end stack. Similar 4-light window to first floor, slightly offset to right and with labelled datestone over,inscribed "WSE 1676". Further 4-light mullioned window to extreme right of ground floor; set-back early C19 brick wing to left; dentilled eaves with end stack to left; 3 sash-window front; raised painted keystones, all but one now replaced. Central entrance; boarded door, surround pulvinated frieze and pediment. Side elevation to C17 wing has 2 ranges of 4-light labelled chamfer-mullioned windows and C20 central entrance; further set-back C19 wing to right end. Interior: one large cruck truss marks division of C17 parlour cross wing and former hall now replaced by brick range; only a small portion of blade visible.

Listing NGR: SJ8853258582

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
275236
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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