DIEU-LA-CRES ABBEY FARMHOUSE

DIEU-LA-CRES ABBEY FARMHOUSE, ABBEY GREEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268654
Date first listed:: 13-Apr-1951
List Entry Name:: DIEU-LA-CRES ABBEY FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: DIEU-LA-CRES ABBEY FARMHOUSE, ABBEY GREEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268654
Date first listed:: 13-Apr-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:: DIEU-LA-CRES ABBEY FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: DIEU-LA-CRES ABBEY FARMHOUSE, ABBEY GREEN ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: DIEU-LA-CRES ABBEY FARMHOUSE, ABBEY GREEN ROAD

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Leek
National Grid Reference:: SJ 98231 57832

Details

LEEK

SJ95NE ABBEY GREEN ROAD 611-1/1/5 (East side) 13/04/51 Dieu-la-Cres Abbey Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY GREEN Dieu-la-Cres Abbey Farm)

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Farmhouse, now subdivided as 2 dwellings, and possibly incorporating gateway to former Abbey of Dieu l'Acres. Dated 1612. Some later extensions and remodelling in the later C19 (some time after 1862). Coursed and squared rubble to lower storey, timber-framed above, with slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, main range with 2 gabled cross-wings, one forming storeyed porch towards centre of building. Right-hand part of main range possibly extended towards right (chamfered plinth in left-hand section only), but incorporating full-height archway in rear wall of left-hand bay, apparently originally a gateway with coved timbering over. Front of this range has 3 2-light iron casement windows projecting on moulded Mannerist brackets, with similar windows below all presumably dating from C19 remodelling. Mock-timbering added at the same time to painted brick of upper storey. 2 jettied wings separating central hall range of main part of house: canted bay window in left-hand wing, with 3-light leaded window above, and gable apex jettied out. Square panelled framing visible in return gable of main range, but timbering on jettied wing largely C19. Central hall range has full-height stair window to left, with leaded glazing and some stained glass. 6-light mullioned window to first floor projecting on moulded brackets, 3-light mullioned window below. Timbering applied to brick in C19. Right-hand wing is gabled storeyed porch. Dated 1612 with initials R over TA in timber cornice over 4-centred arched entrance. Moulded bressumer and close studding with some decorative panelling, apparently all largely the original timberwork. Axial stack behind porch, with decorative niches cut into the brick. Former similar stack towards right removed. Rear elevation has wide gable to cross-wing, with shallow jettying to first floor, extended, possibly during C19. Narrow storeyed porch on axis of front entrance porch, the doorway now a pointed-arched window. Shallow stair tower projects beyond the porch; enriched 4-centred arch of the former cart entry with decorative timber panelling to coving at lower end

of building. Adjoining the house at right angles to the front, is an arched entrance gate dated 1627: shallow 4-centred archway of that date, ornamented (probably when the adjacent farm buildings were constructed c1820) with over-arch and pediment assembled from sculpted stone of abbey ruins: the pediment over the arch is made from sections of clustered shaft piers, and the archway is flanked by carved figures and further ornamented with rosettes, corbel heads and fragments of tracery, vaulting ribs, etc. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Sleigh, John: A History of the Ancient Parish of Leek: Leek: 1862-).

Listing NGR: SJ9823157832

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Sources

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Sleigh, J, A History of the Ancient Parish of Leek, (1862)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.