Castle Farmhouse Including Attached Outbuildings

SO48SW 1943-1/5/133 12/11/54

WISTANSTOW CHENEY LONGVILLE Castle Farmhouse including attached outbuildings (Formerly Listed as: CHENEY LONGVILLE Cheney Longville Castle)

GV II*

Farmhouse and attached outbuildings. C17 with earlier, possibly C14, origins. Sandstone rubble; plain tile roof; massive canted and stepped rubble buttress stack with brick chimney to west gable; stepped rubble stack with brick chimney to east gable. Courtyard plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 3-window range: central late C18 or early C19 2-light casement with, to right, similar 3-light casement; to left, 3-light mullion and transom light with canted casement. 3 timber-framed gabled dormers with metal casements and leaded lights, under shallow jettied trusses, that to right dated 1677. Ground floor with 2 casements and to left a mullion and transom leaded light with central casement; stone sills; battered plinth. Left returned side: 2 ashlar lights to cellars. Rear: early C19 verandah on 4 stone Tuscan columns, over 2 late C19 casements in moulded wood architraves, and C20 part-glazed door and overlight. Wing to right rear: 2-light casement over cross-window with metal casement; brick end stack. Further wing with semi-dormer over ashlar segmental arch of carriageway; barred and shuttered opening over 2 possibly medieval openings with coved ashlar reveals and traces of relieving arches; ventilation holes; battered plinth; lean-to; gable of returned side has wood mullion light with stone sill. Rear of range to west: rubble buttress stack; C19 barred lights in chamfered ashlar cases. Courtyard front of rear wing has various lights and openings, with stone steps to granary; 3 medieval pointed arches and C19 arch; chamfered ashlar lights; blocked C14 mullion window with hoodmould. Lean-to with cider-mill. INTERIOR: massive chamfered ceiling beams; deep splayed openings.

Listing NGR: SO4173984788