Upper Limebrook Farmhouse
UPPER LIMEBROOK FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081743
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Limebrook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER LIMEBROOK FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081743
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Limebrook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPER LIMEBROOK 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:
- UPPER LIMEBROOK FARMHOUSE
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 37495 66567
Details
WIGMORE CP LIMEBROOK SO 36 NE 5/74 Upper Limebrook Farmhouse 11.6.59 GV II*
Shown on OS map as Upper Limebrook Cottage. Farmhouse, now house. Probably C15, altered and extended in C16; restored late C20. Timber-framed with rendered infill on rubble base; stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses with dressed rubble stack to north side of ridge. Cruck hall-house of three framed bays aligned east/west with through- passage and inserted rubble chimney in central bay. A west wing was added in the C16 which has since been demolished. Two storeys (probably divided into two storeys in C16). Framin : full cruck truss with collar exposed at east end. Three panels from sill to wall-plate with additional row of panels on south side where roof pitch has been altered. C16 collar and tie-beam truss with struts at west end. Windows are all C20 leaded casements (with plank weatherings on ground floor). South front elevation: there are seven ground floor 2-light windows and eight first floor 2-light windows. Entrance to right of central bay has a partly-glazed C20 door. Present main entrance to rear of central bay. Interior: the two intermediate cruck trusses survive; the westernmost has an arch-braced collar and cusped V-strut. There are two rows of large square panels at the base of the easternmost one with short solid upper corner braces. The roof has two tiers of purlins and three tiers of cusped wind-braces. The outer bays are floored and there is a large fire- place in the west bay. There is also recorded to be some C17 panelling. RCHM, Herefs, III, p 210, item 21; BoE, p 233; Alcock, NW: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).
Listing NGR: SO3749566567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150253
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 210
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 233
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)
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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