Nun Upton
NUN UPTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081859
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Nun Upton
- Statutory Address:
- NUN UPTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081859
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Nun Upton
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUN UPTON
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:
- NUN UPTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brimfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 54194 66580
Details
SO 56 NW BRIMFIELD CP -
4/1 Nun Upton
11.6.59 - II*
House. Early C17, partially clad in brick late C17, restored early C20. Timber-frame with rendered infill on a coursed rubble plinth partially clad in brick. T-plan, with cross-wing aligned east/west, other range to north. Main stack at junction has three brick shafts, the outer two rusticated, the inner one panelled. The other stack is on east wall of north range and has two diamond-plan brick shafts. West front of brick, two storeys with attics. Cross-wing to right has a curvilinear gable con- taining a 3-light casement with a dentilled brick cornice above. First floor window is a 4-light casement with brick drip moulding. Ground floor has a moulded brick string course and a 2-light casement. The range to the left is of two storeys with attic lit by a 2-light casement in a gable to left of centre. Two-storey porch to right of centre has a shaped gable. Two plus one plus one windows, all of three lights, save that in porch of two lights. Ground floor has a moulded string course. Entrance in left- hand side of porch with semi-circular arch. The framing is exposed only in the east elevation, which is close-studded with mid-rail. The first floor window is of four lights, with ovolo moulded mullions and a moulded sill on brackets. The timber-framed porch was largley rebuilt in the early C20. Interior: the south room of the cross-wing has remains of a plaster ceiling with moulded panels enclosing bands of running foliage and fruit ornament. (RCHM, 3, p 26, no 2; BoE, p 236).
Listing NGR: SO5419466580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150022
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 26
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 236
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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