Higher Thornhill Farmhouse
HIGHER THORNHILL FARMHOUSE, BOWSEY WOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353702
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Thornhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER THORNHILL FARMHOUSE, BOWSEY WOOD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353702
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Thornhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER THORNHILL FARMHOUSE, BOWSEY WOOD 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:
- HIGHER THORNHILL FARMHOUSE, BOWSEY WOOD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Madeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ7651845795
Details
SJ 74 NE
2/48
MADELEY C.P.
BOWSEY WOOD ROAD
(off west side)
Higher Thornhill Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably C17, re-modelled early C18 with early to mid-C19
additions and alterations. Purple and red brick (random and English
bonds respectively); plain tiled roofs; ridge and end stacks. Probably
originally a hall and cross-wing type, the cross-wing re-built and extended
in early C18 with hall (possibly originally timber framed) re-faced in
C19, at which time a lean-to addition was built to its rear. 2 storeys
to hall (left), 2 storeys and attic to C18 cross-wing (right); hall
probably of 3 structural bays; 1:1:1 windows, all 3-light mid-C19
casements, those on ground floor of hall and ground and first floors of
cross-wing under cambered heads; mid-C19 gabled entrance porch
immediately in line with ridge stack in angle between hall and cross-
wing (note, however, that principal access may originally have been from
other side, where cross-wing projects further and where any former
entrance would now be hidden by C19 lean-to); floor bands carried round
cross-wing with on the long side the positions of 8 narrow bricked-up
windows visible, 4 to each floor. Interior: unchamfered spine beam and
heavy joists to left-hand ground floor room of hall, while in the back
wall to the right (formerly an external wall) timber framing was recently
discovered (1984).
Listing NGR: SJ7651845795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 362657
- 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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