The Barracks
THE BARRACKS, 16 AND 17
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366706
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- THE BARRACKS, 16 AND 17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366706
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BARRACKS, 16 AND 17
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:
- THE BARRACKS, 16 AND 17
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cardington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 50603 95217
Details
SO 5095-5195 CARDINGTON C.P. CARDINGTON
12/26 Nos. 16 and 17 29.1.52 (The Barracks)
GV II
House. C14 and late C16 with late C18, C19 and mid-C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed with plastered infill; partly rebuilt and extended in thinly coursed yellow sandstone rubble with right- hand gable end in dressed Hoar Edge Grit sandstone; plain tile roof. C14 hall range of 2½ framed bays with projecting gabled C16 cross- wing of 2 framed bays to north. Framing: C14 square panels with large arch braces; C16 closely-spaced uprights with middle rails (side wall and rear) and square panels with parallel diagonal struts forming lozenge panels; jettied gable ends of cross-wing with ovolo moulded bressumer on carved brackets and redundant crown-post trusses with v-struts. 2 storeys with cross-wing of one storey and attic. West front: large ridge stack off-centre to left at junction with cross-wing with dressed sandstone base and weathering and 3 red brick star-shaped shafts with oversailing tops; integral stone corner stack at front to right. Right- hand range with 2 first-floor 2-light C20 wooden casements and 2 ground- floor C20 wooden casements; catslide roof over central C20 lean-to addition with 2 wooden casements to the front, and hipped roof over glazed porch to right with boarded door in return; cross-wing to left with 4-light C20 wooden attic casement and C20 ground-floor 3-light casement with glazed door to right. Straight joint in hall range to right dividing former medieval hall and C18 stone addition. Fire insurance plate in right-hand gable end. First-floor timber framing at rear of hall range. Interior: 3 crown-post trusses over hall range, plain except for cusped down braces; smoke blackening; inserted c.1600 ceiling in hall range has chamfered beams with ogee stops; large hall fireplace with chamfered dressed sandstone reveals and chamfered wooden lintel; cross-wing has central collar and tie-beam truss (minus queen struts) with v-struts, and pairs of purlins (lower chamfered) with wind braces; ovolo-moulded ground-floor cross-wing ceiling beams and large open fireplace with chamfered stone reveals and chamfered lintel. The hall range may have extended further at one time but the present end bay is probably C18. M. Moran, Survey of The Barracks (November, 1983).
Listing NGR: SO5060295213
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259567
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Moran, M, Survey of the Barracks, (1983)
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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