Poplar Tree Farmhouse
POPLAR TREE FARMHOUSE, HELSBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330155
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Poplar Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POPLAR TREE FARMHOUSE, HELSBY ROAD
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- 2001-10-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/05378/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330155
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Poplar Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POPLAR TREE FARMHOUSE, HELSBY 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.
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:
- POPLAR TREE FARMHOUSE, HELSBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alvanley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 49480 74268
Details
ALVANLEY C.P. HELSBY ROAD SJ 47 SE North East Side 4/7 Poplar Tree Farmhouse. GV II Farmhouse: 1684 altered and extended, of painted brown brick on sandstone plinth; grey slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 rooms with gable to road with 1-room right wing added. Cyma stone band at 1st floor on dentilled brick band of 2 courses; cyma stone band on band of 3 brick courses, the middle course set diagonally, at base of front gable. Band of raised diaper-work beneath eaves. The blank front gable has stone at centre of upper storey inscribed IE:L:1684 with a projecting cambered arch, perhaps the head of a former window, to each side; a blank oval panel with moulded stone surround in gable. In left side a flush narrow oval panel may have been to former window or pitching eye. Flush stone quoins at rear corners. Ridge chimney on cross-wing; flush gable chimney on right wing. 4-panel half-glazed door in pedimented case in right wing. Windows in both wings are 4 and 6-pane casements of C19 vernacular type. Interior altered. Overmantel in rear room of cross-wing probably late C17.
Listing NGR: SJ4948074268
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57153
- 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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