Birches Farmhouse
BIRCHES FARMHOUSE, CASTLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206121
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Birches Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BIRCHES FARMHOUSE, CASTLE LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206121
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Birches Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRCHES FARMHOUSE, CASTLE LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- BIRCHES FARMHOUSE, NETHERSET HEY 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:
- BIRCHES FARMHOUSE, CASTLE LANE
- Statutory Address:
- BIRCHES FARMHOUSE, NETHERSET HEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Madeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 77524 44344
Details
SJ 74 SE MADELEY C.P. CASTLE LANE
5/49 Birches Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Partly C17 with considerable early to mid-C19 additions and alterations. Purplish-brown brick (probably partly concealing timber frame), plain tile roofs, ridge and end stacks. Earliest part (on south) consists of a short rectangular block with a longer range added later at right angles to rear; further.C19 additions to east. 2 storeys. West front: 3:1 windows with projecting pedimented break (curved and ramped down behind) to right; windows all mid-C20 casements except one glazing bar sash to first floor of pedimented break; entrance (C20 door) in angle between main section and pedimented projection. South front: now bricked up but said formerly to be timber-framed; prominent ridge stack with tall paired shafts, one C20 casement to right. Further single-storeyed C19 additions (including former dairy) to right. Interior: timber frame partly exposed including principal rafters to south gable end of later C17 range; large stone fireplaces to both C17 ranges; moulded and bevelled cross beams with straight-cut chamfer stops.
Listing NGR: SJ7752444344
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 362658
- 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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