Brown's Bank Farmhouse

BROWN'S BANK FARMHOUSE, WHITCHURCH ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1266217
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Brown's Bank Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BROWN'S BANK FARMHOUSE, WHITCHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1266217
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
19-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Brown's Bank Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BROWN'S BANK FARMHOUSE, WHITCHURCH 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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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:
BROWN'S BANK FARMHOUSE, WHITCHURCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Newhall
National Grid Reference:
SJ 64531 43065

Details

NEWHALL C.P. WHITCHURCH ROAD SJ 64 SW 7/69 Brown's Bank Farmhouse (formerly listed as 12.1.67 Brown's Bank) - II Farmhouse. Dated 1759 on datestone which reads Robt. and Alice/Brown 1759. Red Flemish bond brick with black headers and plain tile roof. Two storeys with attic. Entrance front: lower portion to left of three bays with central lugged, moulded door surround containing a six-panel door, the lower four panels being raised and fielded, the upper two glazed. The extreme left hand window is of 3 C19 lights with a cambered head and wooden sill and to the right is a mezzanine window of 2 lights with a cambered head. To the right of this is a projecting gabled wing with 2-light ground and first-floor cambered headed windows divided by a band of 2 bricks depth. To the gable are stone springers and stone coping with a band of 2 bricks depth dividing this first floor from the gable. Chimney stacks above left hand gable and to right of centre. Left hand gable end has bands of 2 bricks depth dividing the floors and a further similar band to the middle of the gable. Pair of C19 French windows to left of ground floor and two 2-light cambered-headed windows to the first floor and two blocked square openings to the gable. Rear: at right, masked by C20 glazed outshut, is a 3-light cambered headed ground floor window with a similar window above and to the right of this is a blocked 3-light cambered-headed window with flat-arched head. The gable at left has 2-light ground and first floor cambered-headed windows of 2 lights. Brick bands divide the floors. Two-light window to the gable which has stone springers and a coping. Interior: To the ground and first floors are doors with H and butterfly hinges. Chamfered ceiling beams to ground floor and inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressumer.

Listing NGR: SJ6453143065

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
422245
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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