Obelisk Farmhouse
OBELISK FARMHOUSE, OBELISK FARM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382418
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OBELISK FARMHOUSE, OBELISK FARM LANE
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- Date:
- 2007-07-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/16652/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382418
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OBELISK FARMHOUSE, OBELISK FARM 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.
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:
- OBELISK FARMHOUSE, OBELISK FARM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tanworth-in-Arden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 14621 71664
Details
TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN
SP17SW OBELISK FARM LANE
652-1/2/138 (North side)
Obelisk Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C17 with later additions and alterations including
early C19 refronting. Brick with painted render and plain-tile
roof. T-shaped on plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Rear single-storey range
with attic. 3 pilaster buttresses to front facade. Part-glazed
door right of centre with hood, flanked by canted bay windows
with casements with glazing bars under hipped roofs. First
floor has tripartite casements with glazing bars and wooden
mullions. Dentil eaves band. Right end has off-centre ridge
and rear internal stack.
INTERIOR: has remains of timber-framing: to front room a
jowled stud, chamfered beams, inglenook fireplace with
bressumer beam. Exposed wall plates. Plank doors. Rear range
has beam with deeply-cut chamfer; attic has exposed purlins.
Forms a group with Obelisk at Umberslade Park (qv).
Listing NGR: SP1462171664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482802
- 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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