Description

SO48SW
1943-1/5/133
12/11/54

WISTANSTOW
CHENEY LONGVILLE
Castle Farmhouse including attached outbuildings
(Formerly Listed as:
CHENEY LONGVILLE
Cheney Longville Castle)

GV
II*

Farmhouse and attached outbuildings. C17 with earlier,
possibly C14, origins. Sandstone rubble; plain tile roof;
massive canted and stepped rubble buttress stack with brick
chimney to west gable; stepped rubble stack with brick chimney
to east gable. Courtyard plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 3-window range: central
late C18 or early C19 2-light casement with, to right, similar
3-light casement; to left, 3-light mullion and transom light
with canted casement. 3 timber-framed gabled dormers with
metal casements and leaded lights, under shallow jettied
trusses, that to right dated 1677. Ground floor with 2
casements and to left a mullion and transom leaded light with
central casement; stone sills; battered plinth.
Left returned side: 2 ashlar lights to cellars.
Rear: early C19 verandah on 4 stone Tuscan columns, over 2
late C19 casements in moulded wood architraves, and C20
part-glazed door and overlight.
Wing to right rear: 2-light casement over cross-window with
metal casement; brick end stack.
Further wing with semi-dormer over ashlar segmental arch of
carriageway; barred and shuttered opening over 2 possibly
medieval openings with coved ashlar reveals and traces of
relieving arches; ventilation holes; battered plinth; lean-to;
gable of returned side has wood mullion light with stone sill.
Rear of range to west: rubble buttress stack; C19 barred
lights in chamfered ashlar cases. Courtyard front of rear wing
has various lights and openings, with stone steps to granary;
3 medieval pointed arches and C19 arch; chamfered ashlar
lights; blocked C14 mullion window with hoodmould. Lean-to
with cider-mill.
INTERIOR: massive chamfered ceiling beams; deep splayed
openings.

Listing NGR: SO4173984788

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550485

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)