Lower House Farmhouse
LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383412
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383412
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Boraston
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 61515 69947
Details
BORASTON
SO66NW Lower House Farmhouse
582-1/9/7
11/12/54
GV II*
Farmhouse. Late C16. Painted timber frame with painted
rendered and painted brick infill panels on stone rubble
plinth, brick cross wing and extensions. Plain-tile roofs.
Large projecting eaves stacks with spurred brick shafts and
C19 caps. L-shaped original plan consisting of 2-framed-bay
main range with brick cross wing, with late C17 and C19
extensions.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attic. East front with square panelling
3 panels high at first floor mostly with raking studs forming
decorative framing, jettied with double-cyma and ovolo moulded
bressumer on carved console brackets over square-framed ground
floor, 3 panels high, with dragon post to right. 2 C19 metal
2-light casements with top-lights at first floor and single
3-light casement with top-lights at ground floor, C19 front
door to left with C20 porch. C19 brick lean-to to left.
North return gable: first and second floor framing similar to
east front with additional ground level tension brace. Single
casement at ground floor and C19 2-light metal casement
inserted to the right of former framed window opening at first
floor. Gable-end truss with jettied tie beam with
double-ovolo-moulded soffit chamfer set on carved console
brackets, vertical struts with middle rail framing attic
2-light casement with collar and raking struts above.
Double-ovolo and cyma moulded bargeboards.
West side of main range: to left is framing as east front but
without the jetty, to right is a pair of large projecting C16
brick stacks which flank brick cross wing gable-end with brick
saddleback coped gables of stepped merlons and with attic
window with moulded brick surround. Cross wing gable and
right-hand stack covered by projecting tiled gabled extension.
Extension to south is C17 single timber-framed bay with square
framing 3 panels high surviving on the south side and the east
gable-end truss visible behind the C19 brick lean-to
extension.
INTERIOR: ovolo-chamfered bridging beam and cross-bridging
beam. Chamfered floor joists with stepped concave chamfer
stops. Painted timber carved crest with rampant lion inset in
ground floor wall.
Part of a larger Manor House partly destroyed by fire in C19.
Listing NGR: SO6151569947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483830
- 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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