Old Downton Farmhouse
OLD DOWNTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081765
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Downton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OLD DOWNTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081765
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Downton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD DOWNTON 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:
- OLD DOWNTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Downton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 42672 73370
Details
DOWNTON CP DOWNTON ON THE ROCK SO 47 SW 3/23 Old Downton Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. C17 with mid-C19 and circa 1930 alterations and additions. Part timber-framed with brick infill on rubble base, part brick, roughcast, hipped slate roof with brick ridge stacks. L-plan with wings extending to north and west and large external rubble chimney with tiled offsets and brick stack on east side; main south elevation was refronted circa 1930. Two storeys, basement and attic with half-dormers. Framing: visible at rear of building. Four rows of panels from sill to wall-plate with long straight braces across lower corners. Main south front: three bays; left bay projects slightly and there is a pilaster buttress between the central and right bay. There is a basement 3-light casement in the right bay, a bay window with a lean-to roof and a 12-pane sash window on the ground floor, a 6-pane sash, a 3-light and a 2-light casement on the first floor and a central gabled half-dormer with a 2-light casement. Central entrance has a moulded flat canopy on brackets and a half-glazed door. A C19 wing adjoins the west side of the north wing at the rear. Interior has one room lined with Cl7 panelling and one room lined with early C18 panelling. Also the Cl7 staircase is recorded to have survived and has moulded strings and square newels; the balusters have been removed. (RCHM, Herefs, Vol III, p 45);
Listing NGR: SO4267273370
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150202
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 45
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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