Hill Top Farmhouse
Hill Top Farmhouse, Longdon
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1277717
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Hill Top Farmhouse, Longdon
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1277717
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hill Top Farmhouse, Longdon
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:
- Hill Top Farmhouse, Longdon
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Longdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 09002 14089
Details
SK 01 SE
10/85
LONGDON C.P.
HILL TOP
Hill Top Farmhouse
27.2.64
GV
II*
Farmhouse. Mid to late C17 with early C18 alterations. Red brick; plain tile roofs with raised verges; brick ridge stacks. Short central range aligned east-west facing south with flanking crosswing; the eastern wing projects to the north and has a north-east annexe on the same alignment as the central range. Two storeys and attic with storey bands and coved eaves band. The central range breaks forward slightly and is flanked by a pair of gabled crosswings: 2:2:2 window front; cross casements with gauged brick heads. Central six-panel door with gauged brick head; the upper part of the doorway has been infilled with brick and is dated 1727.
Interior. The entrance hall has an early C18 fireplace with keyed and lugged stone surround with bolection moulded picture frame above anda pair of flanking niches with shell-vaulted semi-circular heads and Gibbsian surrounds. Moulded pilaster cornice which is stratigraphicaly later than the doorway infill of 1727. Early C18 dog-leg staircase with closed string, turned balusters, and ramped handrail. Over the stairwell is an C18 plaster ceiling with cornice of dentils and egg and dart, and a lobed panel with egg and dart surround containing a roundel with foliated centre from which a brass chandelier hangs. Exposed timber framed partitions in the central range apparently of re-used material. Chamfered and stopped spine beam in the east wing and large open fireplace with timber bressumer.
Listing NGR: SK0900214089
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430682
- 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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