Ford Green Farmhouse
FORD GREEN FARMHOUSE, SPRAGG HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387769
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FORD GREEN FARMHOUSE, SPRAGG HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387769
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORD GREEN FARMHOUSE, SPRAGG HOUSE 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:
- FORD GREEN FARMHOUSE, SPRAGG HOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 88940 50944
Details
SJ 85 SE; 613-1/2/10051
STOKE ON TRENT,
FORD GREEN,
Spragg House Lane,
Ford Green Farmhouse
II
House, formerly farmhouse. Circa early C18, remodelled early C19. Flemish garden wall bond plum-coloured brick. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick gable-end stacks.
PLAN: Two-room plan with central entrance and staircase hall, parlour on left and hall/kitchen on right with service wing (now separate dwelling, The Cottage, not of special interest) behind the right-hand room. Late C20 single-storey wing added behind left room.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and cellar. Symmetrical three-window north front. C19 tripartite sashes on ground and first floors with cambered stuccoed heads; 3- and 2-light second floor casements; central doorway with C20 brick gabled porch with early C20 inner door. At rear (5), single-storey late C20 wing on right; and 2-storey former service wing on right (now separate dwelling, The Cottage).
INTERIOR: joinery includes early C19 panelled doors on ground floor, early C18 6-panel doors on first floor; plank attic doors, panelled window shutters, and C20 panelling in hall. Chimneypieces missing or replaced, except for fine early C18 chimneypiece and overmantel in left first floor chamber with panelled pilasters and large fluted pilasters to overmantel. Good early C18 dog-leg staircase up to attic with moulded string, heavy moulded handrail, turned balusters and square newels. Chamfered ceiling beams. The north bay of the roof has tie-beam and king-post truss with struts and re-used principals; the remainder of the roof is formed by large purlins supported on the brick cross-walls. The cellar has rendered stone walls and brick vaults.
Listing NGR: SJ8894050944
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475761
- 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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