Green Close Farmhouse

GREEN CLOSE FARMHOUSE, SHRIGLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1277238
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Green Close Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
GREEN CLOSE FARMHOUSE, SHRIGLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1277238
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Green Close Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
GREEN CLOSE FARMHOUSE, SHRIGLEY 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GREEN CLOSE FARMHOUSE, SHRIGLEY ROAD

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

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Pott Shrigley
National Park:
Peak District
National Grid Reference:
SJ 95036 81455

Details

SJ98 SE POTT SHRIGLEY C.P. SHRIGLEY ROAD
(East Side)
4/102 Green Close Farmhouse

II

Laithe house: mid C19: Coursed squared sandstone to gable front, random rubble elsewhere, composite tile roof and central stone stack. Double-pile house, with laithe behind forming rectangular plan. 2-storey, symmetric, 3 bay gable front with plain barge boards. C20, top-opening 16-pane wooden casements under plain lintels. C20 stone and timber porch hides glass door. Cart entrance in right side and doors into 2 shippons with central feeding passage at rear. Square pitch-holes into loft over byre in right side and rear. All openings in plain stone surrounds.
A late example of a laithe house, which also has an unusual ground plan. (E. Mercer, English Vernacular Houses, HMSO 1975, 142).


Listing NGR: SJ9503681455

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Legacy System number:
407444
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Sources

Books and journals
Mercer, Eric, English Vernacular Houses, (1975), 142

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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