Lower Sweeney Farmhouse
LOWER SWEENEY FARMHOUSE, A 483
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367352
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Sweeney Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER SWEENEY FARMHOUSE, A 483
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367352
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Sweeney Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER SWEENEY FARMHOUSE, A 483
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:
- LOWER SWEENEY FARMHOUSE, A 483
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ2848625385
Details
SJ 22 NE
5/160
OSWESTRY RURAL C.P.
A 483 (west side)
Lower Sweeney Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably c.1840 but possibly on earlier site. Dressed
coursed sandstone blocks with painted ashlar dressings, slate roofs
with coped verges on stone kneelers. H-plan with central hall range
flanked by gabled cross-wings in late C17 vernacular style. 2 storeys,
moulded eaves cornice; 1:2:1 bays, mid-C19 wooden mullioned and transomed
windows with moulded dripstones and metal glazing bars (2 lights to hall
range and 3 to cross-wings), that to upper left in oriel, rectangular
chamfered slit openings to gables; windows to left return (except lower
right) blind and painted in imitation; gabled porch in angle with left
gable has coped verges on stone kneelers, elliptical outer arch with
blank armorial shield above and panelled inner door with latticed
sidelights; yellow brick ridge stacks with 4 attached octagonal shafts
to left and right of hall range and to right gable, which extends to
rear. Interior: parallel unchamfered ceiling beams in ground-floor
rooms; C19 staircase and plank and panelled doors. A prominently
sited house included as an unaltered example of the C19 revival of a
style similar to substantial C17 farmhouses in the region.
Listing NGR: SJ2848625385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255636
- 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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