Rake End House
RAKE END HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249146
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Rake End House
- Statutory Address:
- RAKE END HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249146
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Rake End House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAKE END HOUSE
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:
- RAKE END HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mavesyn Ridware
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 07773 18364
Details
MAVESYN RIDWARE RAKE END SK O1 NE 1578-0/6/10004 Rake End Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Circa early to mid C18. Flemish bond red brick. Plain tile roof with gabled ends, the gable parapets having been removed from the front range but surviving on the rear wings. Brick gable-end and axial stacks. PLAN: 3-room plan front range with entrance hall between the left and centre rooms and large double range service wing near the centre at the rear. Small single storey circa C19 extension in the rear right hand angle. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 3:1 bay front with moulded brick dentil cornice. Tall windows with cambered arch heads and circa late C19 4-pane sashes on the ground floor and C20 cross-mullion-transom windows on the first floor. Doorway to left of centre with 6-panel door and rectangular 2-pane overlight. Large rear wing with 2 parapeted gables and mullion-transom casements in cambered arch openings. INTERIOR: Much of the C18 joinery survives including a good moulded-string staircase with thick moulded balaiters, moulded handrail and turned newels; fielded 2-panel doors; chamber chimneypieces, one with flat baluster-like pilasters, the other with eared architrave, frieze and cornice; moulded wooden ceiling cornice. Old floor boards, chamfered ceiling beams, window shutters and Victorian slate chimneypiece. Roof structure not seen.
Listing NGR: SK0777318364
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431002
- 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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