Mitnell Farmhouse
MITNELL FARMHOUSE, MITNELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383798
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Mitnell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MITNELL FARMHOUSE, MITNELL LANE
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- Date:
- 2007-07-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/16663/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383798
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Mitnell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MITNELL FARMHOUSE, MITNELL 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:
- MITNELL FARMHOUSE, MITNELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Richard's Castle (Shropshire)
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 49963 70164
Details
RICHARDS CASTLE
SO47SE MITNELL LANE, Mitnell
482-1/8/163 (North West side)
Mitnell Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1674 with C20 extensions. Stone
rubble with plain clay tiles. Stone projecting end stacks with
brick shafts and brick ridge stack.
EXTERIOR: south front to garden is a 4-window range consisting
of two 3-light casements flanking a reset 2-light casement
with an additional C20 3-light casement in the C20 extension
to left. At ground-floor level the central C17 bay has a
4-panelled door under a C20 projecting tiled gabled open
porch. Right-hand gable end: 2 C17 chamfered oak-framed cellar
openings with inserted mullions. C20 casements to ground and
attic floors. Rear (north): 2 C17 oak chamfered mullioned
windows of 2-lights with the same to left at ground level.
Former central doorway infilled with 3-light casement set on
stone with ogee-stop-chamfered lintel surviving. C20
single-storey extension to right with entrance door.
INTERIOR: ogee-chamfer-stopped bridging beam and mantle-beam
in east bay. Full-height square-panelled cross-frame between
east and central bays. Central bays with chamfered bridging
beams with morticed soffits. Ogee-chamfer-stopped mantlebeam
with inscribed initials and date. First-floor west bay has
ogee-chamfer-stopped mantle-beam with diamond inscription.
Single trenched-purlin roof with 2 twin-raking-strut trusses.
Inscription on mantle beam: 'RS' over '1674' set in an incised
border and flanked by 'T' and 'B': Reputed to be Richard
Salwey (Lord of Manor) and Thomas Bezand (tenant).
Listing NGR: SO4996370164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484230
- 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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