Pool Cottage
POOL COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081814
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Pool Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- POOL COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081814
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Pool Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- POOL COTTAGE
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:
- POOL COTTAGE
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 49760 67763
Details
ORLETON CP COMBERTON SO 4967 10/95 Pool Cottage 11.6.59
GV II
House. Early C17, remodelled later C17 with some mid-C20 restoration. Timber-frame with rendered infill, extended in brick with machine tile roof. L-plan, cross-wing extending to south, other range to east has been shortened as evidenced by blocked mortices in gable end. Main stack of rubble with two linked brick shafts laterally placed on west wall of cross- wing. North front of two storeys, with an attic to gabled cross-wing on right formerly lit by a blocked 3-light window. First floor has three plus one windows, the left-hand one a 2-light casement, then two single- light casements and a 3-light casement. Ground floor has a pair of single- light casements to left and two 3-light casements. Entrance to left of centre has a C20 ledged and boarded door. Framing: the cross-wing is jettied with a moulded bressummer supported on curved brackets rising from pilasters with capitals. The central window has a moulded sill, with a carved figure on stud below holding an axe in his right hand. Ground floor is two square panels high, first floor four rectangular panels high, the two upper central panels have curved nibbed braces. Roof truss hasa strut each side of window, lintel formed by a high collar with nibbed curved struts above. Other range is four square panels high with straight angle braces. (RCHM, 3, p 159, no 28; Parkinson, J and Ould E A: Old Cottages, Farmhouses and other half-timber buildings in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire, 1904, pl 35).
Listing NGR: SO4976067763
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150117
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 159
Parkinson, , Ould, , Old Cottages Farm Houses and other half timbered buildings in Shropshire Herefordshire and Cheshire, (1904)
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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