Hornspike Road Farmhouse

HORNSPIKE ROAD FARMHOUSE, HORNSPIKE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1264233
Date first listed:
16-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Hornspike Road Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HORNSPIKE ROAD FARMHOUSE, HORNSPIKE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1264233
Date first listed:
16-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Hornspike Road Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HORNSPIKE ROAD FARMHOUSE, HORNSPIKE ROAD

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:
HORNSPIKE ROAD FARMHOUSE, HORNSPIKE ROAD

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 48166 34144

Details

WHIXALL C.P. HORNSPIKE ROAD SJ 43 SE (east side) 5/201 Hornspike Road - Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. C17, partly remodelled and extended late C18 with later additions and alterations. Roughcast timber frame on high red brick plinth (mixed bond) with red brick additions; slate roofs. Original house of 3 framed bays, extended by single bay to right and eaves raised late C18. 2 storeys with dentilled eaves cornice. Late C19 casements on each floor to left and right of central boarded door under gabled hood to C17 part; C18 addition has cast-iron fixed- light window directly below eaves and 2 small C20 casements to ground floor. Integral end stacks to C17 part and to right of C18 addition. 2-storey outshut to rear of C17 part with back wall rebuilt in C19 brick. Interior: left ground-floor room has chamfered cross beam with heavy joists; right ground-floor room of C17 part has chamfered spine beam with ogee stops and heavy joists. Straight-flight staircase between 2 rooms. Timber frame visible beneath wall-paper to first floor, including to cross walls. Plank doors with strap hinges and original floorboards.

Listing NGR: SJ4816634144

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
428414
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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