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Latitude: 52.8212 / 52°49'16"N
Longitude: -3.0627 / 3°3'45"W
OS Eastings: 328486
OS Northings: 325385
OS Grid: SJ284253
Mapcode National: GBR 73.V6K4
Mapcode Global: WH78Y.XCR0
Plus Code: 9C4RRWCP+FW
Entry Name: Lower Sweeney Farmhouse
Listing Date: 15 May 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1367352
English Heritage Legacy ID: 255636
ID on this website: 101367352
Location: Shropshire, SY10
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Oswestry Rural
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Morton St Philip and St James
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Farmhouse
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OSWESTRY RURAL C.P.
A 483 (west side)
Lower Sweeney Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably c.1840 but possibly on earlier site. Dressed
coursed sandstone blocks with painted ashlar dressings, slate roofs
with coped verges on stone kneelers. H-plan with central hall range
flanked by gabled cross-wings in late C17 vernacular style. 2 storeys,
moulded eaves cornice; 1:2:1 bays, mid-C19 wooden mullioned and transomed
windows with moulded dripstones and metal glazing bars (2 lights to hall
range and 3 to cross-wings), that to upper left in oriel, rectangular
chamfered slit openings to gables; windows to left return (except lower
right) blind and painted in imitation; gabled porch in angle with left
gable has coped verges on stone kneelers, elliptical outer arch with
blank armorial shield above and panelled inner door with latticed
sidelights; yellow brick ridge stacks with 4 attached octagonal shafts
to left and right of hall range and to right gable, which extends to
rear. Interior: parallel unchamfered ceiling beams in ground-floor
rooms; C19 staircase and plank and panelled doors. A prominently
sited house included as an unaltered example of the C19 revival of a
style similar to substantial C17 farmhouses in the region.
Listing NGR: SJ2848625385
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