Upper House
UPPER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081858
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Upper House
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081858
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Upper House
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPER HOUSE
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:
- UPPER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Preston on Wye
- National Grid Reference:
- SO3844641664
Details
PRESTON-ON-WYE CP
PRESTON-ON-WYE
SO 34 SE
4/61
Upper House
II
House. C14, with some C17 alterations, clad in stone in C18, with some
early C19 and late C20 alterations. Timber-frame clad in stone, mostly
roughcast, with a slate roof. H-plan with hall aligned north/south.
Screens passage to north end of hall, wing beyond rebuilt C17, spere truss
in lower of two bays. Solar cross-wing contains remnants of C14 work.
East front: the left-hand cross-wing is flush, the other projects. Cross-
wings of two storeys with one window, to the left a 16-pane sash, to the
right a C20 top-hung casement. Hall range of one storey with attic lit by
two gabled dormers. Two 16-pane sashes on ground floor. Entrance to left
of centre has a gabled C19 porch with half-glazed door. Interior not
inspected. Reported to contain a base cruck in the centre of the hall
with tenoned arcade plate. The upper roof is of simple construction with
a collar above the cambered tie-beam. The spere truss is of aisled form
with arch braces to the tie-beam. A relatively plain example of this type
of hall. (Bismaris, M R: "A Base-Cruck Hall at Preston-on-Wye, Hereford-
shire", Woolhope Club, Vol 41, pt III, 1975, pp 306 - 311).
Listing NGR: SO3844641664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150020
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of Woolhope Naturalists Field Club in Transactions of Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, Vol. 41, (1975), 306-311
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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