Pentre-Clawdd Farmhouse and attached cowhouse

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367375
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Pentre-Clawdd Farmhouse and attached cowhouse
Statutory Address:: Pentre-Clawdd Farmhouse and attached cowhouse

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Date:: 1999-10-08
Reference:: IOE01/01904/12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367375
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Pentre-Clawdd Farmhouse and attached cowhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Pentre-Clawdd Farmhouse and attached cowhouse

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: Pentre-Clawdd Farmhouse and attached cowhouse

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Selattyn and Gobowen
National Grid Reference:: SJ 29928 32125

Details

SJ 23 SE 4/41 SELATTYN AND GOBOWEN CP PENTRE-CLAWDD Pentre-Clawdd Farmhouse and attached cowhouse II Farmhouse and attached cowhouse. Farmhouse. Early C19 incorporating parts of an earlier building. Red brick (early C18 to left on ground floor); slate roof.

Two storeys with toothed eaves cornice. Three window front, segmental-headed glazing bar sashes. Entrance immediately to left of centre window; plain pilastered doorcase with incised lozenge shapes to lintel and flat bracketed hood, six-panel door (upper panels now glazed). Large red brick stack directly in front of ridge between second and third windows from left and external end stack to left with C18 brick to bottom. Salop Fire Insurance Plate (not numbered) above entrance. Straight joint immediately to left of entrance and left part of house slightly recessed with earlier roof line visible to gable end.

Cowhouse. Early C19 incorporating two cruck trusses of a C15 open-hall house. Red brick; slate roof. Two levels. Front has C19 three-light casement to left and C20 casement to right.

Interior: two true cruck trusses, one approximately to centre and second at junction with house; apexes destroyed. First truss is chamfered and has cambered collar; beam spanning width of truss just above head height has billet moulding. Second truss: cruck blade survives to front wall with collar but has been cut through to back. Bay to left of first truss has inserted loft.

Interior of house: large chimney breast to ridge stack has inglenook fireplace with C19 mantel-shelf in hall. Room to right of stack has deep-chamfered spine beam and there are exposed joists in the hall. Panelled doors.

The farm stands within a steep-banked, roughly coursed limestone rubble walled oval-shaped enclosure (not included in this list), ringed by yew trees, suggestive of an early origin for the site. A church or chapel is reputed to have been situated close by (local information).

Listing NGR: SJ2992832125

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Legacy System number:: 255754
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.