Comberton Farmhouse
COMBERTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081813
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Comberton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COMBERTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081813
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Comberton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMBERTON 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:
- COMBERTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Orleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 49703 67758
Details
ORLETON CP COMBERTON SO 4967 10/93 Comberton Farmhouse 11.6.59 GV II
Farmhouse. Late C16 to early C17, remodelled late C18 with some 1980's restoration. Timber-frame with rendered infill and slate roof. L-plan, cross-wing extending to south, other range slightly offset extending to east. Lobby entrance against stack in middle of east range. North front of two storeys with gable-lit attic to cross-wing on right. First floor four plus one windows, two 3-light casements to left, a fixed casement and two 4-light casements. Ground floor has three plus one windows, the outer two are 3-light casements, the others 4-light casements. The cross- wing jetty is underbuilt in rubble, whilst the bay nearest this end of the other range is jettied on scroll brackets. Entrance to right of centre in subsidiary range with a shallow-pitched gabled slated canopy of plain wooden posts with a 6-panel door. Framing: five square panels high, cross-wing gable has a slightly projecting tie-beam with two collars and vertical struts. Interior of cross-wing has traces of floral wall-paintings in the north room on the first floor. Several triangular doorheads and exposed chamfered and stopped-ceiling beams. (RCHM, 3, p 159, no 27).
Listing NGR: SO4970367758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150115
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 159
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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