Lower Lye Farmhouse

LOWER LYE FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LAWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366997
Date first listed:
28-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Lower Lye Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LOWER LYE FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LAWN ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366997
Date first listed:
28-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Lower Lye Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER LYE FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LAWN 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOWER LYE FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LAWN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bucknell
National Grid Reference:
SO3334275648

Details

BUCKNELL C.P.
SO 37 NW
7/23

CHAPEL LAWN ROAD (south side)
Lower Lye Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, now disused. Mid-and late C17 with later additions and alterations.
Limewashed uncoursed limestone rubble and flat slabs; corrugated iron roof.
Original single-cell plan of end baffle-entry type, extended to left in late
C17 to form present 3-room plan. One storey and attic. Three C19 casements
to ground floor and 2 raking eaves dormers, right larger with leaded lights.
Boarded door to left and also to right in separate corrugated iron lean-to
against large external rubblestone end stack. Integral rubblestone end stack
to left. Interior. 3 rooms to ground floor with timber framed cross wall
(large square panels with woven infill visible)between centre and right rooms.
Centre room sub-divided by timber framed spine wall. Chamfered cross-beam
ceiling and heavy joists to right ground-floor room; chamfered spine beam
and heavy joists to other ground-floor rooms. 3-light leaded mullion window
to back wall of right ground-floor room and C18 oak staircase to front of
centre room. Plank doors throughout. Collar and tie beam roof in 3 bays
with cambered tie beam to right gable end.

Listing NGR: SO3334275648

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
257526
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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