Wood Farmhouse
WOOD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308058
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WOOD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308058
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOD 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:
- WOOD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Child's Ercall
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 69156 21126
Details
CHILD'S ERCALL C.P. CAYNTON SJ 62 SE 10/23 Wood Farmhouse - GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Circa 1800. Red brick. 2-span plain tile roof. 3 storeys over basement with parallel range at rear of 2 storeys and gable- lit attic. Integral brick end stack to left and external brick end stack to right; integral brick end stack to rear range. 5 bays; segmental-headed glazing bar sashes with crown glass. First-floor central and left hand windows with fixed dummy sashes. Central door of 6 beaded flush panels with margin-light and lozenge-pattern rectangular overlight and doorcase consisting of panelled pilaster strips, frieze and cornice. Left-hand gable end of 2 bays with rendered blind ground-floor window to left and first-and second- floor left-hand windows with fixed dummy sashes. Salop fire insurance plate in gable. Rear: 3 bays; glazing bar sashes. C20 ground-floor windows and central glazed door. Rear of front range to south-west with first-and second- floor blind windows. Interior: Early C19 dog-leg staircase with open string, cut brackets, stick balusters (2 per tread), ramped handrail and wreathed foot newel. First-floor balustrade on 2 sides. 6-panelled doors with moulded architraves throughout. Principal rooms with moulded cornice and reeded soffit. Right-hand ground-floor room with early C19 marble fire- place surround. The rear range incorporates reused timber framing in internal cross walls. The rear range appears to be a slightly later addition (see straight joint to east) and is possibly a rebuilding of or on the sight of an earlier timber framed range. A coin dated 1730 has been found in the roof of the front range.
Listing NGR: SJ6915621126
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260173
- 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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