Great Fernhill Farmhouse
GREAT FERNHILL FARMHOUSE, A 5
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367370
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Great Fernhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT FERNHILL FARMHOUSE, A 5
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367370
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Great Fernhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT FERNHILL FARMHOUSE, A 5
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:
- GREAT FERNHILL FARMHOUSE, A 5
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 31680 32540
Details
WHITTINGTON C.P. A.5 (north-east side) SJ 33 SW 5/113 Great Fernhill Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Mid-C17, extended late C18 with later additions and alterations. Red brick (mixed bond); hipped graded slate roof. Large rectangular block with twin full-height gables and C18 gabled addition to rear. 2 storeys with carved sprocketed eaves to main range; attics and cellar. Late C19 mullioned and transomed wooden windows, one to either side of and 3 between large stacks to front wall, those to first floor directly below eaves and those to ground floor in partly infilled segmental-headed openings; blind and painted in imitation to upper and lower left. Central entrance; segmental-headed 4-panel door with rectangular barred overlight. Prominent stepped external lateral stacks to left and right with miniature gables behind have tops rebuilt in C19 yellow brick. 3-bay left return has toothed floor band and pilaster strip between centre and right bays; C19 mullioned and transomed windows, upper centre blind and those to ground floor in partly infilled segmental-headed openings. C19 single-storey brick lean-to against right return. Twin gables to rear have graded slate hanging to top storey, left gable (housing staircase) with infilled mullioned window to left wall to top and right gable with external end stack. Lower C18 gabled range at junction between twin gables has dentilled eaves cornice and narrow external end stack. Rear wall of main block has 2 infilled square- headed windows to first floor and two 16-paned glazing bar sashes under open lean-to to ground floor. Interior. Open-well staircase rising from ground floor to attic has moulded handrail, carved newel-posts and barleysugar balusters. Vertical posts exposed to partition walls on first floor and chamfered ceiling beams and ledged and braced doors throughout. Barrel-vaulted brick cellar.
Listing NGR: SJ3168032540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255827
- 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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