Lower House Farmhouse
LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, ROCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081784
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, ROCK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081784
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, ROCK
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, ROCK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Richards Castle (Hereford)
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 48998 69936
Details
RICHARD'S CASTLE CP ROCK SO 46 NE 3/128 Lower House Farmhouse 11.6.59 - II
Farmhouse. C17, with early C19 and late C20 alterations. Timber-frame with painted brick and rendered infill, partially rebuilt in painted brick, all under a tile roof. L-plan, limbs extending to north and east, with two lateral stacks on west wall of north wing. West front of two storeys with five windows, all 2-light casements except that to left of three lights. Ground floor similar with central entrance. This has a C17 timber-framed porch with dentilled tie-beam, on scroll brackets, the truss having two curved and nibbed struts. The bargeboards are C17 with dentilling and the finial has a carved pendant. (RCHM, 3, p 174, no 7).
Listing NGR: SO4899869936
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150151
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 174
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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