Higher House
HIGHER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264144
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher House
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264144
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER 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:
- HIGHER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whixall
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 52139 35691
Details
WHIXALL C.P. STANLEYGREEN SJ 53 NW 2/212 Higher House - - II Farmhouse, now divided. Early C17, partly rebuilt early to mid- C19 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with painted brick infill and C19 red brick cladding or replacement; plain and machine tile roofs. L-plan comprising hall range of 2 wide framed bays with central baffle-entry and 2-bay cross-wing projecting to right; late C17 timber framed addition attached to left gable end of hall range. 2 storeys. Framing: cross-wing has square panels, 4 from cill to wall-plate, with short straight tension braces; collar and tie beam truss with part of V-strut visible to rear gable; front gable clad or rebuilt in C19 brick with exposed single-purlin ends. Hall range: front wall clad or rebuilt in C19 brick but framing survives to back above painted brick plinth; 3 square panels with short straight tension braces. Position of infilled doorway and 2-light mullion windows visible to right of centre. Late C17 addition attached to left gable end of hall range has rectangular panels to rear and gable with single-purlin ends but C19 red brick cladding or replacement to front. Late C19 segmental-headed casements to left and right of central 4-panel door (top panels now glazed) to hall range with casement directly below eaves above left casement and another in gabled half-dormer to right; subsidiary 4-panel door (top panels also glazed) to far right in angle with cross-wing. This has C19 segmental-headed casement on each floor. Another C19 segmental- headed casement to extension to left of hall range. Cross-wing has integral lateral stack to right and stepped external end stack to rear gable; prominent ridge stack in 2 sections to centre of hall range. C19 single-storey gabled brick outbuilding attached to rear gable or cross-wing. Interior: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
Listing NGR: SJ5213935691
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428425
- 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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