Cloud House Farm

Cloud House Farm, Toft Green, Congleton, CW12 3QF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374769
Date first listed:
01-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Cloud House Farm
Statutory Address:
Cloud House Farm, Toft Green, Congleton, CW12 3QF

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374769
Date first listed:
01-Feb-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Cloud House Farm
Statutory Address 1:
Cloud House Farm, Toft Green, Congleton, CW12 3QF

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Cloud House Farm, Toft Green, Congleton, CW12 3QF

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:
Rushton
National Grid Reference:
SJ9120663928

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 January 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SJ 96 SW
4/136

RUSHTON C.P.
Toft Green
Cloud House Farm

(formerly listed as Cloudside Farmhouse RUSHTON, previously listed as Cloud House)

1.2.67

II
Farmhouse. Dated 1612 with later alterations and additions. Ashlar-like rubble; Welsh slate roof; side stack to right and end stack to left. 'T'-shaped plan of hall and parlour cross wing, unusually entered at parlour side. Two storeys and attic. Labelled three window front on plinth in three parts: slightly projecting C17 gable to right: two-light chamfer mullion attic window over five-light, cavetto labelled, mullion and transom windows to ground and first floors, ovolo moulded to former and chamfered to latter; set-back C17 hall range to left, with a range of windows offset to right, headed by a tall gabled masonry dormer of characteristic C17-type with four-light chamfer mullion window set well into the upper half, and painted datestone in the space below; the two windows below of six lights correspond to the same pattern as those in the gable adjacent; attached, set-back and lower late C19 wing to left with a single range of windows; that on the first floor being re-used from the formerly exposed north gable of the C17 house, three lights, chamfer mullions and transom. C20 boarded front door is set into return to left of gable on site of C17 window; massive stack set back to right with three diagonally-set top-shafts (only one remaining).

Interior: chamfered beams to ceilings in parlour and hall; square-framed timber cross wall between these two rooms; quartered block staircase to attic.

Listing NGR: SJ9120663928

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
275347
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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