Great Bilbo
GREAT BILBO
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078184
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Great Bilbo
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT BILBO
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078184
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Great Bilbo
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT BILBO
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT BILBO
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Longtown
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 35935 29301
Details
SO 32 NE LONGTOWN CP -
7/47 Great Bilbo
29.9.52
- II
Farmhouse. C15, extended and altered during late C16 or C17, minor C20 alterations. Sandstone rubble with corrugated asbestos roof. C15 wing aligned east/west with later wing aligned north/south adjoining to south. Central projecting gabled porch to east front, gable-end stacks to later cross-wing, axial stack to earlier wing. Single storey with attic to earlier wing, two storeys and attics to later wing; east front: 4-light diamond mullioned windows flank central porch to upper floor, one C19 casement window to left with 5-light diamond mullioned and transomed window to right with square-headed label, a continuous pentice extends to left and to right on first floor flanking porch with segmental-headed doorway, inner moulded square-headed surround to doorway with segmental head, heavy battened door with decorative strap hinges. Interior of C15 wing reveals two cruck trusses which have been mutilated at the base, later wing retains good chamfered and moulded ceiling beams; plank-and- muntin panelled partitions survive on ground and first floor with segmental- headed doorways; large stone winder staircase to south gable end and further staircase in north gable end. (RCHM Vol I, p 186).
Listing NGR: SO3593529301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355356
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 186
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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