Godscroft Hall Farmhouse
GODSCROFT HALL FARMHOUSE, GODSCROFT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261843
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Godscroft Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GODSCROFT HALL FARMHOUSE, GODSCROFT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261843
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Godscroft Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GODSCROFT HALL FARMHOUSE, GODSCROFT 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:
- GODSCROFT HALL FARMHOUSE, GODSCROFT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Frodsham
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 50324 76740
Details
FRODSHAM C.P. GODSCROFT LANE SJ 57 NW (East Side) 2/70 Godscroft Hall Farmhouse. II Farmhouse probably early C18 (with some earlier reused materials), cased in sandstone and extended to right circa 1830 (datestone DW 1746 on brick farm building not included in this item). Coursed sandstone rubble; grey slate roofs. 2 storeys;4 windows. Left part has 4-panel door (flush lower panels) in simple classical case with panelled reveals and soffit; two 12-pane recessed sashes to each storey left of door; stump of large stone chimney (now disused) at rear opposite doorway. Right portion (about 1 metre taller than left portion) has 2 12-pane recessed sashes to each storey; flush brick gable chimney at junction of wings. C19 rear wing (ridge parallel with front) has no features of special interest. Interior: Ovolo oak beam in central front room; reused chamfered oak beam in left front room. 1-flight open string stair, circa 1830, has shaped brackets, turned balusters and curtail. Back stair, probably oak but painted, of early C18 type has tapered chamfered newels, swept rail and stick balusters. 1 ovolo and 1 chamfered oak beam upstairs. Broad-board softwood doors on H-L hinges. The farm is on the site of Godscroft cornmill; a long earth dam survives.
Listing NGR: SJ5032476740
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436349
- 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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