Ford Cottage
FORD COTTAGE, FORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081741
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FORD COTTAGE, FORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081741
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORD COTTAGE, FORD STREET
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:
- FORD COTTAGE, FORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wigmore
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 41556 68996
Details
WIGMORE CP FORD STREET (south side) SO 4069 - 4169 SO 4068 - 4168 Ford Cottage [formerly 8/72 listed as cottage on 9/72 south side of Ford Street (two tenements 80 yards 11.6.59 W of Vicarage) II Shown on OS map as Ford House. House, formerly divided into two dwellings. Circa 1600 with late C17 addition, restored late C20. Timber-framed with rendered infill on rubble base, some rubble walling and shingles at east end. Slate roof with a rebuilt brick stack at west end of ridge and a C17 recapped brick stack to front of ridge. Three framed bays and chimney bay aligned east/west with C17 addition of two framed bays at west end. Main part of two storeys, addition of a single storey and attic. Framing: main part has two rows of irregularly sized panels per storey, some short straight braces in lower corners at first floor level; the firs floor of the north front is jettied on shaped brackets and a rubble pier at the west end. The south elevation was also jettied originally but has been underbuilt in rubble. There is a collar and tie-beam truss with raking struts partly exposed at the west end. The addition has three rows of square panels from sill to wall-plate; the west gable-end truss is con- cealed beneath shingles. North front elevation: windows are all C20 casements. There are two 3-light windows on the ground floor and eight 2-light windows on the first floor. Main entrance to left of second bay from west end (probably in original through-passage position) and has a C20 door. The addition has a 3-light and a single-light C20 casement on the ground floor and an attic light on the gable end. Beneath the attic light is a C20 lean-to addition with two garage doors. Also C20 lean-to addition at rear. Interior: main ceiling beams have run-out chamfer stops and subsidiary ceiling beams in central ground floor room have bar chamfer stops. (RCHM, Herefs III, p 210, item 8).
Listing NGR: SO4154869000
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150251
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 210
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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