Harecastle Farmhouse
HARECASTLE FARMHOUSE, NEWCASTLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374407
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Harecastle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HARECASTLE FARMHOUSE, NEWCASTLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374407
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Harecastle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARECASTLE FARMHOUSE, NEWCASTLE ROAD
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:
- HARECASTLE FARMHOUSE, NEWCASTLE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kidsgrove
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 83253 52392
Details
KIDSGROVE C.P. NEWCASTLE ROAD (east side) SJ 85 SW Talke
5/64 Harecastle Farmhouse 30.11.83
- II
Large farmhouse. Circa 1600. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings; plain tile roof; lateral stacks of rubble and brick. U-shaped plan: central single-cell hall range'aligned east-west facing south with south projecting crosswings, large external stacks to the centres of the north, east and west elevations. 2 storeys and attic. A pair of gabled cross- wings flank a recessed centre. 1:1:1 window front: 5-light chamfered mullion and transom windows with rebated surrounds and tile dripstones; 4-light chamfered mullion windows to the attics and to a basement beneath the right hand wing. C20 door to the left hand side of the hall range within a C17 opening. To the north (rear) the hall range is flush with the wings. This elevation is dominated by the chimney stack serving the hall range. Chamfered mullion windows with rebated surrounds. The principal windows of the wings have 4 lights: those at attic level are placed centrally but those at ground and first floor levels are left of centre. These latter are balanced by 2-light windows in the left hand wing and by circular windows in the right hand wing. 3-light hall range windows to left of stack. The east elevation has a 2-light window to ground floor left. The west elevation has a square headed door to the left of the stack with a massive lintel, and I 3-light window above. Interior. Chamfered and stopped ceiling beams throughout. Queen strut roof truss.
Listing NGR: SJ8325352392
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 273348
- 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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