Lower House Farmhouse
LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081442
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081442
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eastham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 67626 68098
Details
EASTHAM CP - SO 66 NE
5/33 Lower House Farmhouse
6.10.52
GV II*
Farmhouse. c1750. Handmade brick, plain tiled roof with parapets at gable ends and brick end stacks. Two storeys, attic and cellar with chamfered plinth and moulded eaves cornice. 2:3:2 bays; the central three break forward and are surmounted by a tall shaped gable; windows all have moulded architraves; outer bays have 12-pane sash windows with gauged flat heads on both floors; windows of central part have cambered heads, the outer ones on both main floors are narrow 8-pane sashes; they flank the central first floor 12-pane sash, above which is a similar round-headed sash in the gable, and also the central 8-panelled entrance door which also has a cambered head. Attic lights in gable ends. Interior: noted as having retained its oak staircase with turned balusters; parlour retains its original panelling and moulded cornice all in bold relief; it has a moulded stone fireplace flanked by giant spiral pilasters on high fluted pedestals. The rest of the interior is said to be virtually unaltered. Rear wings at centre and right. On bricks either side of the main entrance door are carved the initials "BS" and "AS"; the initials "MS" are also carved on the right side of the gabled central part at about first floor level; these initials are said to refer to the Stafford family. Inspected inside. (VCH 4, p 266; BoE, p 140).
Listing NGR: SO6762668098
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149226
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 266
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 240
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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