Description

SJ 32 NW OSWESTRY RURAL C.P. WOOTTON

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- Wootton Castle

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 with considerable later additions and
alterations. Timber frame, uncoursed sandstone rubble and brick, now
largely roughcast, slate roofs. Hall range of 2 unequal framed bays
aligned east-west with 2-bay cross-wing added at right-angles to south;
this in turn extended to south by single-bay addition c.1900. One
storey and attic; late C20 casements to front gable of hall range and 2
contemporary gabled eaves dormers to right, left with half-glazed door
beneath and right with late C20 casement below, position of former
gabled entrance porch between with late C20 fixed-light casement inserted;
small internal end stack to right and reduced and re-built axial ridge
stack to hall range behind. Interior: chamfered ceiling beams to main
ground-floor rooms and massive stone stack with re-built inglenook
fireplaces to hall range; central truss of Queen-strut type exposed
upstairs in hall range and former end wall of cross-wing displays
close studding with middle rail; much of the remaining timber frame
plastered over at time of re-survey (August 1985).

Listing NGR: SJ3414627960

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26305922

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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