Barrows Brow Cottage and Barrows Brow Farmhouse
BARROWS BROW COTTAGE, BARROWS BROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249790
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barrows Brow Cottage and Barrows Brow Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARROWS BROW COTTAGE, BARROWS BROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249790
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barrows Brow Cottage and Barrows Brow Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARROWS BROW COTTAGE, BARROWS BROW
- Statutory Address 2:
- BARROWS BROW FARMHOUSE, BARROWS BROW
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:
- BARROWS BROW COTTAGE, BARROWS BROW
- Statutory Address:
- BARROWS BROW FARMHOUSE, BARROWS BROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Peover Inferior
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 74466 74343
Details
SJ 77 SW
4/52
PEOVER INFERIOR CP
BARROWS BROW
Lower Peover
Barrow's Brow Farmhouse and Cottage
II
Farmhouse now 2 dwellings. Early C17 core encased early C19. Some internal
timber framing; red brick, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 windows to 1st floor.
Inserted door within added porch to left of centre; on right are casements of 3
and 2 lights beneath segmental arches; on left is a similar 2-light window and
inserted part-glazed door to Barrow's Brow Cottage. Square-headed, 3-light
casements to 1st floor. Brick end stacks set to side of ridge, similar stack to
right of centre. Lean-to against left return (not of special interest).
Interior: 2 pairs of crucks divide original 3-cell house; those to left are roughly
ogee-shaped with collar and post to support ridge (missing); confused framing within.
The other pair are marked '11' and are infilled by framing and brickwork which
forms reredos to an inserted brick stack; bressumer of earlier smoke-hood survives.
Various ceiling beams, that within cottage has stopped chamfers. An original oak-
mullioned 2-light window has been reused within right edge of farmhouse. The
positioning of the end stack and traces of stylobates indicate that both gables
probably had cruck framework. The present rear door to farmhouse (within later
addition) is roughly in position of a baffle entry against the former smokehood.
The house has a well documented history with John Barrow recorded as having
paid Hearth Tax on one chimney in 1664/6.
Knutsford Historical and Architectural Society Journal, Autumn, 1979, P8
Listing NGR: SJ7446674343
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59171
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Knutsford Historical and Architectural Society Journal in Autumn, (1979), 8
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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