Crowleasowes
CROWLEASOWES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383684
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Crowleasowes
- Statutory Address:
- CROWLEASOWES
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383684
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Crowleasowes
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROWLEASOWES
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:
- CROWLEASOWES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bitterley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 54697 78357
Details
BITTERLEY
SO57NW MIDDLETON
482-1/5/90 Crowleasowes
12/11/54
II*
Farmhouse. Early C17 on earlier core, C19 extension wing.
Brick; stone rubble to C19 wing. Plain-tiled roof with
brick-coped gables. Large brick stepped eaves stack with 5
rows of cogged brick ornament and twin diagonally-set shafts
and oversailing capping. Integral C19 ornamental brick eaves
stack to rear and gable-end stack to front of C19 wing. PLAN:
original L-shape plan of parallel gabled wings and with third
parallel gabled wing added in C19.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. South-east front: original
portion of front has 2 gables, the left smaller than the
right; brick band overall at first floor and thinner band on
line of closely-set brick ogee-moulded corbels above upper
windows. Below larger gable a further 3 rows of brick
ornamentation (2 rows rounded, 1 cogged) and a similar 2 rows
below smaller gable. One stepped brick window with central
mullion in each gable head and 3 framed and mullioned windows
at irregular heights on first storey. 3 similar windows to
ground storey, the left window transomed. Window lights
generally metal casements with some lattice-leaded. All
mullions and frames are brick, rendered to imitate stone.
Raised brick surround to doorway of rusticated pilasters
surmounted by a brick pediment, under which is an elliptical
moulded arch; raised brick pilaster at right-hand angle
surmounted by a ball finial. Plain boarded and cross-boarded
nail-studded entrance door. C20 casements to C19 gable end to
left.
North-east return: 2 similar windows on upper floor and one on
ground floor; brick band to first floor continued from front.
In centre a projecting brick stack. Rear at north-west: C17
gable to left mirrors that to the front but with single
2-light mullion at ground floor. C19 stone gable to right with
3/6 sash with 6/6 sash under as for south-west side.
Slate-roofed outshut between gables. Left return side
(south-west): 2-storey 3-window range with 3/6 sashes and 6/6
sashes at ground level with brick segmental arches and stone
sills. Central pair of glazed doors with doorcase of plain
pilasters and entablature.
INTERIOR: C16 core of single trenched-purlin roof in central
wing. 2 trusses survive, each of cambered tie beam, 4 vertical
struts and collar. Reused C16 oak panelling reset at
ground-floor middle bay. Reputed to have been built by Dutch
craftsmen in 1623 whilst building Kyre near Tenbury.
Listing NGR: SO5469778357
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484116
- 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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