Castle Farmhouse Including Attached Outbuildings
CASTLE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269816
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Farmhouse Including Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269816
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Farmhouse Including Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wistanstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SO4173984788
Details
SO48SW
1943-1/5/133
12/11/54
WISTANSTOW
CHENEY LONGVILLE
Castle Farmhouse including attached outbuildings
(Formerly Listed as:
CHENEY LONGVILLE
Cheney Longville Castle)
GV
II*
Farmhouse and attached outbuildings. C17 with earlier,
possibly C14, origins. Sandstone rubble; plain tile roof;
massive canted and stepped rubble buttress stack with brick
chimney to west gable; stepped rubble stack with brick chimney
to east gable. Courtyard plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 3-window range: central
late C18 or early C19 2-light casement with, to right, similar
3-light casement; to left, 3-light mullion and transom light
with canted casement. 3 timber-framed gabled dormers with
metal casements and leaded lights, under shallow jettied
trusses, that to right dated 1677. Ground floor with 2
casements and to left a mullion and transom leaded light with
central casement; stone sills; battered plinth.
Left returned side: 2 ashlar lights to cellars.
Rear: early C19 verandah on 4 stone Tuscan columns, over 2
late C19 casements in moulded wood architraves, and C20
part-glazed door and overlight.
Wing to right rear: 2-light casement over cross-window with
metal casement; brick end stack.
Further wing with semi-dormer over ashlar segmental arch of
carriageway; barred and shuttered opening over 2 possibly
medieval openings with coved ashlar reveals and traces of
relieving arches; ventilation holes; battered plinth; lean-to;
gable of returned side has wood mullion light with stone sill.
Rear of range to west: rubble buttress stack; C19 barred
lights in chamfered ashlar cases. Courtyard front of rear wing
has various lights and openings, with stone steps to granary;
3 medieval pointed arches and C19 arch; chamfered ashlar
lights; blocked C14 mullion window with hoodmould. Lean-to
with cider-mill.
INTERIOR: massive chamfered ceiling beams; deep splayed
openings.
Listing NGR: SO4173984788
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460401
- 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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