Common House Farmhouse With Pump and Former Pigsty to Rear

COMMON HOUSE FARMHOUSE WITH PUMP AND FORMER PIGSTY TO REAR, WILLINGTON LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1247912
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
Common House Farmhouse With Pump and Former Pigsty to Rear
Statutory Address:
COMMON HOUSE FARMHOUSE WITH PUMP AND FORMER PIGSTY TO REAR, WILLINGTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1247912
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
Common House Farmhouse With Pump and Former Pigsty to Rear
Statutory Address 1:
COMMON HOUSE FARMHOUSE WITH PUMP AND FORMER PIGSTY TO REAR, WILLINGTON 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:
COMMON HOUSE FARMHOUSE WITH PUMP AND FORMER PIGSTY TO REAR, WILLINGTON LANE

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

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Clotton Hoofield
National Grid Reference:
SJ 52652 64415

Details

The following building shall be added:

SJ 56 SW CLOTTON HOOFIELD WILLINGTON LANE

5/39 Common House Farmhouse with pump and Former Pigsty to rear.

GV II

Farmhouse, early C19 with C17 origins, Brown brick in Flemish Bond with slate roof, 2 storeys; 3 room baffle entry Plan; a rear wing gives a "T" shaped plan overall. Studded, boarded door in heavy oak frame with external architraves and slated gabled hood, supported by rakers from wooden corbels. 3 light wood casements with stone sills at first floor level only. Segmental arches to ground floor windows, wedge lintels to first floor. The brickwork sits on a weathered stone plinth and there is a 3-course deep brick band over ground floor window head level. Ogee moulded kneelers to verges but copings and lower thrust blocks are missing. Stone ridge and two stacks which divide the ridge into three. The rear (dairy) wing is 1 bay, in English Garden Wall Bond, with boarded door and gable-end stack. Evidence that the roof has been raised.

Interior Exposed bevelled beams.

At the rear (west) there is a C19 pump with stone trough and a small stone pigsty with slate roof and shaped stone kneelers.

Listing NGR: SJ5265264415

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
55788
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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