Tithe House
TITHE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308103
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tithe House
- Statutory Address:
- TITHE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308103
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tithe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TITHE HOUSE
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:
- TITHE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41365 11309
Details
SJ 41 SW FORD C.P. FORD HEATH
6/70 Tithe House - - II
Farmhouse, now disused. Dated 1755. Red brick on coursed rubblestone plinth; asbestos slate roof. 2-room plan. One storey and gable-lit attic. Projecting brick eaves courses and parapeted gable ends with chamfered red sandstone copings; external brick end stacks. 2- window front; C19 two-light wooden casements, that to right with segmental head; central 2-panelled door and brick porch with chamfered stone-coped parapeted gable and yellow sandstone datestone: A 2-light wooden casements flanking stacks in each gable end. T : M Two 2-light wooden casements at rear. One storey out-house 1755 set back to right with brick end stack. Interior: staircase up from entrance; left-hand ground-floor room with pair of transverse beams, and large open fireplace with bread oven and cast iron range. This house was built for Thomas Ambler, the improprieter of the tithes of Ford, and later occupied by his tithe collector. It is an early and a well preserved small post-enclosure farmhouse and is specially notable as a dated example. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p. 228.
Listing NGR: SJ4136511309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258975
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 228
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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