Church Croft
CHURCH CROFT, KINGS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081817
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church Croft
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH CROFT, KINGS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081817
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH CROFT, KINGS ROAD
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:
- CHURCH CROFT, KINGS ROAD
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 49336 67206
Details
ORLETON CP KINGS ROAD (south side) SO 4967 10/104 Church Croft 11.6.59 GV II
House. C16, partly rebuilt late C17 with some mid-C19 alterations, extended early C20. Timber-frame with rendered infill on coursed rubble plinth, tile roof. L-plan, C16 cross-wing extending to north, the C17 range to east. A short C20 wing projects to the west from the cross- wing. Central stack in east range of rendered rubble with a rectangular brick shaft. North front of two storeys with one plus one windows, both 3-light casements. Ground floor has two plus one windows, all 3-light casements. The entrance in angle has a lean-to C20 porch. Framing: cross- wing jettied with chamfered bressummer. Ground floor, two square panels high with close-studding above. The gable truss has a king-post with herring- bone struts. Framing of east range four square panels high. Interior has exposed chamfered and stopped ceiling beams, and a large inglenook in west room of C17 range. (RCHM, 3, p 158, no 10; Parkinson, J and Ould E A: Old Cottages, Farmhouses and other half-timbered buildings in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire, 1904, pl 31).
Listing NGR: SO4933267206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150126
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 158
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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