House and Barn and Cowhouse and Craft Shop 115 Metres North of Acton Scott
HOUSE AND BARN AND COWHOUSE AND CRAFT SHOP 115 METRES NORTH OF ACTON SCOTT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383210
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- House and Barn and Cowhouse and Craft Shop 115 Metres North of Acton Scott
- Statutory Address:
- HOUSE AND BARN AND COWHOUSE AND CRAFT SHOP 115 METRES NORTH OF ACTON SCOTT
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- Date:
- 2007-07-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/16644/10
- Rights:
- © Mr Richard Summers. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383210
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- House and Barn and Cowhouse and Craft Shop 115 Metres North of Acton Scott
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUSE AND BARN AND COWHOUSE AND CRAFT SHOP 115 METRES NORTH OF ACTON SCOTT
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:
- HOUSE AND BARN AND COWHOUSE AND CRAFT SHOP 115 METRES NORTH OF ACTON SCOTT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Acton Scott
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 45561 89641
Details
ACTON SCOTT
SO48NE House, barn, cowhouse, and craft
1312-1/10/7 shop 115 metres north of Acton Scott
Hall
GV II
House, formerly 2 houses, barn, cowhouses; craft shop formerly
workshop, bull pen, and re-sited horse engine house. c1767,
with C20 additions. Brick pierced with 2 tiers of ventilation
slits and with rubble stone plinth and ashlar quoins.
Plain-tile roofs with ashlar coped gables, some with pyramid
finials, and with dentil course brick eaves. 2 integral brick
eaves stacks to front and single stack to rear. Extensive
L-shaped plan incorporating barn and house in 2-storey range
aligned east-west, with cowhouse and craft shop occupying the
smaller 2-storey wing aligned north-south. 2 small extensions
abut the main wing. Horse engine house relocated to the north
side in the 1980s and bull pen on south side.
EXTERIOR: north front covered to left by rebuilt horse engine
shed with hipped tiled roof set on freestanding brick piers;
plain barn door opening in centre, house to right with pair of
much altered single casement frontages each with plain boarded
doors; that to the right with projecting gabled canopy.
West front: single casement on gable end of house to left,
pair of glazed roundels over boarded doors in brick segmental
arched openings to cowhouse in centre, pair of boarded doors
in brick segmental arched opening to craft shop on right.
South gable end: timber mullioned window in opening with
stepped ashlar hoodmould over, triangular opening in apex with
louvred vent infill.
Rear (south) side: 2 barn door openings, that to right with
diagonally-boarded doors. Casements and plain boarded door to
left. Rear (east) side: 3 casements with boarded doors below;
C20 timber window to left.
INTERIOR: barn range with 6-bay twin-purlin roof with king
post trusses.
Main building in the complex contains the Acton Scott Working
Farm Museum formed in 1975.
Listing NGR: SO4556189641
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483628
- 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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