Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- final-roof-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 16th century, with remodels in the mid 17th century and mid 18th century, and an extension added in the 19th century. It features a timber-framed structure with plaster infill, some areas roughcast, and slate roofs. The building has a rubblestone ridge stack with red brick shafts. It is designed in a hall and cross wing style and has two storeys over a cellar.
The hall, likely consisting of three structural bays, displays close studding on the first floor and long straight tension braces. Originally jettied, the ground floor has been underbuilt and is roughcast, although a moulded bressumer with billet type moulding is visible. On the first floor, there is one 19th-century casement window to the right and an original two-light window to the left, which has been infilled.
On the ground floor, a projecting flat-roofed porch to the right indicates the former location of the cross passage. Adjacent to this is a projecting gabled cross wing featuring 19th-century casements on both floors. The gable end of the hall is clad in stone and has a datestone marked "R" below the roof apex.
At the rear, the twin-gabled elevation retains close studding on the ground floor and shows the position of an original small two-light window, now blocked, to the right. The first floor features jettying, with a noticeable height difference between the two gables, and an attic on the right gable, which is now obscured by roughcast. Beneath the roughcast, there is said to be unusual timber-framed decoration on both gables, and one gable reportedly has a datestone from 1659.
To the right of the original farmhouse, as viewed from the east, is a 19th-century addition that is rectangular in plan, also roughcast, with a slate hipped roof. The interior has not been inspected.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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