Middle Farmhouse
MIDDLE FARMHOUSE, HEM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366903
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE FARMHOUSE, HEM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366903
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLE FARMHOUSE, HEM LANE
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:
- MIDDLE FARMHOUSE, HEM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 36409 06950
Details
SJ 30 NE WESTBURY C.P. HEM LANE, Westley (South-east side) 9/102 - Middle Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Probably mid-to late C16 partly rebuilt in the mid-C19. Timber framed with painted brick nogging, partly rebuilt in painted brick; slate roof; Baffle-entry plan of 3 framed bays. One storey and attic. Framing: square panels (3 from sole-plate to wall plate) with short corner braces (rear). 3 gabled eaves dormers with 2-light wooden casements; brick ridge stack off-centre to right, integral brick end stack to right, and external lateral stack at rear. 3- window front; C19 two-light segmental-headed wooden casements; mid-C19 four-panelled door between first and second windows from right and gabled brick porch with segmental arch. Timber framed left- hand end wall has collar and tie-beam truss with queen-struts and V- struts; framing exposed at rear too. C19 brick addition at rear with integral brick end stack. Interior: roof with single purlins, central ground-floor room has chamfered beam and joists with ogee stops, large open fireplace with chamfered and stopped lintel, early C19 surround with flush-panelled sides and moulded cornice, and C19 cast iron grate depressed-arched doorway into ground-floor right-hand room; ground- floor right-hand room remodelled in the early C19 with moulded skirting, picture rail and architraves to doors and windows; early C19 fireplace with cast iron grate, segmental arch, and surround with reeded pilasters supporting frieze and moulded cornice, and flanking round- arched wall cupboards, each having reeded architraves with bases and cross-reeding at impost and keystone positions, pairs of one- and 2- panelled doors, and plain shelves within; early C19 staircase to rear with stick balusters and turned newel post. This farmhouse is notable for the completeness of its interior fittings, particularly those dating from the early C19. V.C.H. , Vol. VIII, p. 306; C. Ryan, The evolution of the peasant house in Shropshire. Medieval - c. 1850. The Parish of Westbury, Unpublished thesis (October 1979), Manchester University, pp. 105-6.
Listing NGR: SJ3640906950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259009
- 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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