Fowl House Approximately 10 Metres To West Of Vauxhall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Fowl house.
Fowl House Approximately 10 Metres To West Of Vauxhall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- night-hammer-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Fowl house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 70 NE 6/51
TONG C.P. Fowl House approximately 10 metres to West of Vauxhall Farmhouse.
GV II
Fowl House. Circa 1842. Squared and coursed sandstone base, and gault brick above with grey brick dressings. Neo-Egyptian style; square base with tall pyramid above. Coped base with low entrance to South. Pyramid with dentil brick string courses and diamond openings between, and stone obelisk finial with oval side openings. Some of the bricks were originally inscribed with mottoes: "LIVE AND LET LIVE; SCRAT BEFORE YOU PECK; TRIAL BY JURY; TEACH YOUR GRANNY; CAN YOU SMELL; GIVE EVERY (DOG) HIS DUE (DAY?); HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY." This is one of a series of eccentric out- buildings erected on the Tong Estate in the time of the Second George Durant (d.1844) (qv. Pig Sty and Cow house to North of Acorn Cottage) G. Griffith, History of Tong and Boscobel, 1894, p.1591 D. H. Robinson, The Wandering Worfe, Waine Research Publications, 1980, p.53.
Listing NGR: SJ7830207569
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