Former Threshing Barn With Related Agricultural Buildings About 10 Metres to South-east of Acton Farmhouse

FORMER THRESHING BARN WITH RELATED AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS ABOUT 10 METRES TO SOUTH-EAST OF ACTON FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1367243
Date first listed:
02-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Former Threshing Barn With Related Agricultural Buildings About 10 Metres to South-east of Acton Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
FORMER THRESHING BARN WITH RELATED AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS ABOUT 10 METRES TO SOUTH-EAST OF ACTON FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1367243
Date first listed:
02-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Former Threshing Barn With Related Agricultural Buildings About 10 Metres to South-east of Acton Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER THRESHING BARN WITH RELATED AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS ABOUT 10 METRES TO SOUTH-EAST OF ACTON FARMHOUSE

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER THRESHING BARN WITH RELATED AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS ABOUT 10 METRES TO SOUTH-EAST OF ACTON FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lydbury North
National Grid Reference:
SO 31465 84854

Details

SO 38 NW LYDBURY NORTH C.P. ACTON

9/97 Former Threshing Barn with related agricultural buildings about 10 metres to south-east of Acton House Farmhouse GV II Former threshing barn, now cow house, with attached horse engine house, cartshed with granary above, and pigsties. Late Cl7 with mid to late C19 additions. Weatherboarded timber frame on coursed limestone rubble plinth, and uncoursed limestone rubble additions; plain tile roofs, hipped over horse engine house, and graded slate roof over pigsties. fill: square panels. 3-framed bays with cartshed and granary to east, pigsties to south-west, and polygonal-ended horse engine house projecting from central bay to south. One storey with inserted C19 floor in central bay. Two C19 gabled eaves loft dormers to north with boarded loft doors. North front: first floor central boarded loft door, 7 stone steps up to boarded granary door to left; 2 ground floor windows, boarded door, and two 2-leaf boarded doors. South front: open fronted cartshed to right with central pier, 3 lean-to pigsties to left. Left-hand gable end with loft door and one storey lean-to. Interior: engine house,with double purlin roof and truss with inclined queen struts. Picturesque grouping particularly with the lower pigsties mitred around the south-west corner.

Listing NGR: SO3146584854

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Legacy System number:
257011
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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