BETCHTON FARMHOUSE

BETCHTON FARMHOUSE, BETCHTON LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138758
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: BETCHTON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BETCHTON FARMHOUSE, BETCHTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138758
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: BETCHTON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BETCHTON FARMHOUSE, BETCHTON LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BETCHTON FARMHOUSE, BETCHTON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Betchton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 79198 57181

Details

BETCHTON C.P. BETCHTON LANE SJ 75 NE 6/9 14/2/1967 Betchton Farmhouse.

- II

Farmhouse. Mid/late C16 with C17 addition. Timber-framed with brick infill and corrugated asbestos roof. Two storeys and two storeys with attic. Entrance front: at right is the C17 portion which takes the form of a projecting gabled wing with 6 x 4 cells of small framing with an angle brace to the left and 3-light C19 windows to the ground and first floors. Three-light C19 casement window to the gable above. The lower timbers of this portion are coated with mastic. To the left of this is the earlier portion, now clothed in C19 brick and originally of one storey. This has a projecting gabled service wing at left of centre and a lean-to at left and to right of these a doorway with a moulded surround and a 2-light camber-headed ground floor window with a similar window to the first floor. The earlier portion has ridge chimney stacks at left of centre and far left and the C17 portion has a C19 stack at right of the gable. The right hand side has 9 x 3 cells of small framing on a projecting rendered plinth. To the left is a C19 chimney stack, which is flush and painted in simulation of timber framing. Angle braces to right and to the fifth upright from right. The rear has the projecting C17 gabled wing at left with small framing to the gable and at right of this the single-storey earlier portion has three doorways, two 2-light casement windows and a single-light casement at far right. Interior: One pair of cruck beams to the older portion. Chamfered ceiling beams and an ingle-nook fireplace with chamfered bressumer. The C17 portion has ovolo-moulded ceiling beams to the ground floor.

Listing NGR: SJ7919857181

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Legacy System number:: 56479
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.