Wotherton Farmhouse
WOTHERTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366953
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wotherton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WOTHERTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366953
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wotherton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOTHERTON FARMHOUSE
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:
- WOTHERTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chirbury with Brompton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 28244 00470
Details
CHIRBURY C.P. WOTHERTON SJ 20 SE
4/81 Wotherton Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse. Probably C17, extended mid-C19 with later additions and alterations. Roughcast concealing timber frame with uncoursed limestone rubble additions, slate roofs. L-plan consisting of C17 range with C19 addition at right-angles to rear on left. 2 storeys and gable- lit attic, cellars; 3-window front, late C20 casements to both floors with C19 six-panel door in plain doorcase between second and third windows from left; large stone and brick external end stick to left. Timber framed lean-to dairy to rear with tall external brick stack to left (top rebuilt in C19); full gabled dormer lighting staircase. 2-storey C19 addition has segmental-headed casements on each floor and boarded door to right; integral end stack has red brick shaft. Interior: massive chamfered spine beams with stepped ogee stops to 2 main ground-floor rooms; plank and muntin door with L-hinges leads to cellar; similar door with rectangular barred overlight at foot of oak staircase: this leads to attic and has carved splat balusters on first-floor landing; jowled wall post exposed to back wall on stairs to attic, several plank doors to first floor and attic. Queen-strut roof in 3 bays with upper and lower collars and double purlins.
Listing NGR: SJ2824400470
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257406
- 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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