Monument Type(s):

• FARMSTEAD (Early 19th century to Unknown - 1800 AD?)

Summary

Shear Cottage, a farmstead first identified and classified by the Historic Farmsteads Characterisation Project, 2008 – 2010, (ESA6427), largely from the digital version of the c.1900 OS large scale mapping.

Related records

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events

• ESA6427 - 2008/2010 Historic farmsteads characterisation project by Shropshire Council, HET

Description

Loose Courtyard with farm buildings on three sides of the yard. Additional Plan Details: Additional detached elements to main plan. Date Evidence from Farmhouse: 19th Century. Date Evidence from Working Building(s): None.
Position of Farmhouse: Farmhouse set away from yard. Farmstead Location: Loose farmstead cluster. Survival: Partial Loss - less than 50% change. Confidence: High.
Other Notes: None <1>

The farmhouse at Shear Farm (PRN 34300) is described as of late C16 or early C17 origin, partially rebuilt and enlarged in the early C19. The first available map evidence for Shear Farm is the 1” Ordnance Survey of 1832, which marks the farmstead as ‘Shire’. The parish registers (1915) note ‘Schere’ as meaning the edge of the parish, adjoining Coreley, and in more recent years the farm is said to have been a sheep-shearing station. The Tithe map of 1844 clearly shows the farmstead, which in terms of its overall plan has changed little, though the agricultural buildings have been largely renewed. <2>

<01> Baxter Charlotte, 2010, Historic Farmstead Characterisation Dataset (Geospatial data). SSA23554.

<02> Historic England (Designation), 2018-Aug-17, Shear Farm, Nash, Ludlow, Case Number: 1459044 (Advisory designation documentation). SSA30399.

Sources

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