Woodhouse Farmhouse
WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264581
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Woodhouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264581
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Woodhouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE
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:
- WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wem Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 51706 27728
Details
WEM RURAL C.P. - SJ 52 NW 11/119 Woodhouse Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Late C17, partly remodelled mid-C18 with later additions and alterations. Timber frame, now mainly roughcast, and hall range rebuilt in red brick; plain tile roofs. L-plan comprising long hall range with taller gabled cross-wing projecting to rear on left. One storey and attic with dentilled eaves cornice to hall range, 2 storeys and gable-lit attic to cross-wing. Late C20 casement-fenestration to hall range, one to left and 2 to right of C19 gabled brick porch with C20 windows to C19 gabled half dormers directly above. One C20 casement to gable of cross-wing on ground floor and one C19 segmental-headed casement to attic. Red brick ridge stack to right of porch and integral lateral stack to left wall of cross-wing. Framing: vertical posts exposed to top of right wall of cross-wing to rear but mainly concealed by tall shallowCl8 brick lean-to in angle between ranges. Rear of hall range has floor band and C17 plank door directly beneath stack forming baffle- entry. Mid- to late C19 brick lean-to to left has rounded corner. Interior: not inspected but said to have chamfered ceiling beams and timber frame to cross-walls.
Listing NGR: SJ5170627728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427486
- 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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