Fairboroughs Farmhouse
FAIRBOROUGHS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190258
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fairboroughs Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRBOROUGHS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190258
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fairboroughs Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRBOROUGHS 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:
- FAIRBOROUGHS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Heaton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 95758 60902
Details
HEATON C.P. - SJ 96 SE 5/54 Fairboroughs Farmhouse - 1.2.67 - II
Farmhouse. Dated 1673, with late C19 refrontage and alterations. Rough- faced coursed stone to C17 work, smooth-faced to C19 front. Machine tile roof; verge parapets on corbelled kneelers. Hall plan with 2 cross wings and cross passage contained in lower wing. Entrance front: to south, largely late C19; 2 projecting gables of 2 storeys and attics flank central recess, each section with ranges of paired 2-light casement windows placed centrally to wings and offset to left in centre section; 3-light restored chamfered mullion windows in the attics of gables; Tudor- arched doorway to left side of east gable with datestone over inscribed "IPS 1673"; counter-boarded, nail-studded door within entrance. East front: gable to left with range of 2:3:3-light chamfer mullion windows (ground floor 3-light window missing a stone mullion); set-back kitchen wing to right with plinth, large window to right formerly ovolo mullion and transom (still on site at time of resurvey, September 1984) and Tudor- arch doorway to left. North front: similar format to south; right gable has 3-light chamfer-mullions to each floor and attic; offset to right to ground and first floors with a range of 2-light chamfer-mullion stair windows to the left. Rear of hall rebuilt in brick. Interior: through passage in east wing connects to kitchen or downhouse and divides sculleries and pantries from hall to west. Higher ceiling and heavily chamfered beams and joists to hall, formerly with heck and firehood, evident from ceiling pattern. Paired doors to west end of hall to original stair location, (but C19 stair)in north-east corner of west wing and parlour with rough-cut chamfered beams.
Listing NGR: SJ9575860902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275263
- 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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