Description

RUCKLEY AND LANGLEY C.P. LANGLEY
SJ 50 SW
6/153 Gatehouse approximately
13.6.58 10 metres to north-east
of Langley Hall Farmhouse
(Formerly listed as Langley
Gatehouse)
- II*

Gatehouse. Circa 1600 with probably C15 core. Squared and coursed
grey sandstone ground floor to south-west with grey sandstone
ashlar above, roughly squared and coursed grey sandstone ground floor
to south-east, and timber framed to north-east and first floor to south-
east with wattle and daub, lath and plaster, and red brick infill,
partly rebuilt in red brick to west; stone slate roof. 3 framed bays.
2 storeys and attic. South-west front: chamfered string course and 2
full dormers with coped parapeted gables and 2-light double-chamfered
stone mullioned windows, blocked with red brick; central octagonal
stone ridge stack with coping and decorative cresting, and external
end stack to left has dressed grey sandstone lower part with chamfered
plinth and 2 star-plan brick shafts. 4-windows to first floor; 2-
and 3-light double-chamfered stone mullioned windows, and small one-
light window between first and second from left; large ground-floor,
probably C15 pointed archway off-centre to right with continuous double
chamfer; boarded door inside archway to right. North-east front:
carriageway off-centre to left with chamfered and stopped wooden lintel
and flanking large stone buttresses with chamfered offsets; 2 large
gabled dormers with moulded barge boards, that to left has C16 three-
light stone mullioned window, blocked with red brick,and that to
right with exposed king post truss. Framing: close studding with
middle rail; square panels with parallel diagonal struts forming lozenge
patterns; possibly medieval ground-floor square-panel framing to left
with cusped corner brace; first-floor above carriageway rebuilt in C18
with light framing and long straight braces. Ground-floor framing
partly removed to right to form 2-bay open-fronted cartshed with part
of moulded surround to former doorway at left. First-floor red
brick and stone gardrobe in angle of north-west end stack with lean-to
stone slate roof and small chamfered square stone window with ogee
head. Exposed collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts in gable
end to south-east. Interior not inspected but likely to be of interest.
Langley Hall was an L-shaped building standing within a moated enclosure
to the north-east of the gatehouse. It was a farmhouse by 1717, still
standing in 1846 but demolished in the late C19. The present Langley Hall
Farmhouse (not included in this list) dates from c.1850 and stands to
the south-west-of the gatehouse. There is said to have been an embattled
wall adjoining the gatehouse to the north, demolished in 1961.
V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p. 143; B.O.E., p. 163, H.E. Forrest F.L.S.,
Some Old Shropshire Houses and their Owners, 1924, p p. 176-9; Salop
Records Office, 1846 tithe map (3973/T/2).

Listing NGR: SJ5399900202

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536079

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)