Cause Castle Farmhouse
CAUSE CASTLE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307943
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cause Castle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CAUSE CASTLE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307943
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cause Castle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAUSE CASTLE FARMHOUSE
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:
- CAUSE CASTLE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 33923 08038
Details
SJ 30 NW WESTBURY C.P. -
8/96 Cause Castle Farmhouse -
GV II
Shown on O.S. map as Causecastle Farm. Farmhouse. Soon after 1810. Rendered, probably over coursed sandstone rubble; slate roof. L-plan. 2 stages and attic. Deep eaves; 3 symmetrically placed brick ridge stacks. North-east front: 1:1:1:1 bays, centre and outer bays slightly projecting with triangular-pedimented gables above; 12- and 20- paned glazing bar sashes, second and fourth on ground floor blind; central pair of half-glazed doors (glazed with small panes) with 3- bay cast iron porch consisting of plain circular columns, and flat top with diagonally strutted wrought-iron balustrade. Roof dormers and rendered brick lower wing at rear. Interior not inspected but said to contain some reused timbers and likely to be of further interest. The farmhouse stands on the slope of a hill, to the north-west of the extensive earthworks of Caus Castle (County A.M. No. 68). V.C.H. Vol. VIII, p. 310; C. Ryan, The Evolution of the Peasant House in Shropshire.Medieval-c. 1850. The Parish of Westbury, unpublished thesis (October 1979),Manchester University, p. 240.
Listing NGR: SJ3392308038
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259003
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 310
Ryan, C, The Evolution of the Peasant House in Shropshire Medieval c1850 The Parish of Westbury, (), 240
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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