Description

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SK59NE
5/75

WADWORTH
WELLINGLEY
Wellingley Grange Farmhouse

GV
II

Farmhouse. Mid-late C17 with c1700 cross-wing; C20 alterations. Coursed magnesian limestone rubble, renewed pantile roof. Two storey, C17 farmhouse having four windows to first floor forms rear wing to two-storey-and-attic, one x three bay cross-wing.

C17 part: C19 margin-glazed door flanked by C20 casements, that to left beneath an original dripstone; on far right an original quoined ashlar doorway now blocked. First floor: Sun fire insurance plaque over door beneath an intact double-chamfered two-light window with dripstone; on left an intact four-light window in same style; similar window on right has no dripstone; over blocked door a blocked two-light window with no mullion but with dripstone; first-floor windows retain iron stanchions and old tinted glass in leaded lights.

Roof retains an old pantile with hooded loft aperture (for cat or owl?). Stack at junction with cross-wing has stone base and later brick shaft. Cross-wing set forward on right has C20 casement to first floor inserted in position of double-chamfered cross window; blocked double-chamfered, two-light attic window. Rear (C17 part): intact three-light and two-light windows with dripstones to ground-floor; similar windows to first floor. Right return (of cross-wing): C20 windows to ground floor; three double-chamfered, cross-window surrounds to first floor (blocked except for sash inserted through central window). Left return (C17 part): three double-chamfered, single-light openings.

Listing NGR: SK5942696187

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444342

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)