Ashmore Brook Farm

ASHMORE BROOK FARM, CROSS IN HAND LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374274
Date first listed:
15-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Ashmore Brook Farm
Statutory Address:
ASHMORE BROOK FARM, CROSS IN HAND LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374274
Date first listed:
15-Jan-1988
Date of most recent amendment:
08-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Ashmore Brook Farm
Statutory Address 1:
ASHMORE BROOK FARM, CROSS IN HAND LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ASHMORE BROOK FARM, CROSS IN HAND LANE

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:
Farewell and Chorley
National Grid Reference:
SK0951010921

Details

In the entry for:

SK 01 SE
2/29A

FAREWELL AND CHORLEY C.P.
Cross in Hand Lane
Ashbrook Farmhouse

the address should be amended to read:

SK 01 SE
2/29A

FAREWELL AND CHORLEY C.P.
Cross in Hand Lane
Ashmore Brook Farm
------------------------------------
SK 01 SE
2/29A

FAREWELL AND CHORLEY C.P.
CROSS IN HAND LANE
Ashbrook Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C16, C17 and early C19. Red brick and timber framing, with a plain
tile roof. 2 gable and a single lateral brick stacks. H plan; with the
central section containing a 2 storey medieval timber framed hall house,
floored-in in the C17 and clad in brick. 2 storey. Garden front 2 bays with a
glazing bar sash to the right and a canted bay window with glazing bar sashes
to the left. Above 2, 3 light casements. The entrance front has a cross wing
to the left, with a glazing bar sash on the ground floor, and a 3 light
casement above. Within the re-entrant angle a projecting battlemented porch,
with a moulded surround and a flat hood. The central former hall has a 3 light
casement to both floors, and to the right a part glazed C20 door. The
projecting rear cross wing has a single doorway and a 3 light casement, with a
similar flat head window above. All the remaining windows have segmental brick
heads.

Interior has an early C19 staircase, and doors. The hall has the main posts
and beams surviving, and the roof retains arched braces. The inserted floor
retains its massive chamfered beams in the ceiling of the kitchen.

Listing NGR: SK0951010921

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
272640
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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