Lower Stocks
LOWER STOCKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081674
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Stocks
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER STOCKS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081674
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Stocks
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER STOCKS
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 STOCKS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Almeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 34689 52774
Details
ALMELEY CP THE STOCKS SO 35 SW 1/33 Lower Stocks 20.2.53 GV II Farmhouse. Probably C16 and C17 with later alterations. Timber-frame with brick and plaster infill and brick underpinnings. Welsh slate roofs with sandstone rubble and brick stacks. T-plan with cross-wing aligned east/west attached to north end of main range. Two storeys and attics. East elevation has 1:2:2 windows with gable front to right-hand side. Lean-to on left-hand side has one 2-pane late C19 window; main range has two juxtaposed 3-light late C18 or early C19 wrought iron case- ments; gable has two early C20 casements to left of centre. Ground floor has 2-light late C19 casement with segmental head in left-hand lean-to. Main range has a 3-light casement of the same date as those above it and a mid-C20 brick glazed porch and contemporary glazed front door. Gable has canted late C19 bay window with two forward-facing lights. Frame of upper part of main range has a section of close-studding beneath the two first floor casements. Gable front has four panels from cill to large tie. Angle struts from corner posts to tie. Above the tie are scissor braces. To the right of the bay window is a former entry with triangular head. West elevation has two extruded sandstone stacks. Interior inaccess- ible at time of re-survey (October 1986); noted by RCHM as having C17 stair- case. RCHM erroneously refers to Lower Stocks as Upper Stocks. (RCHM, Vol III, p 7).
Listing NGR: SO3468952774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150402
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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