Castle Farmhouse Including Attached Outbuildings
CASTLE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1269816
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1269816
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1996
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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
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