Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse
Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse, Byford, HR4 7LD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081884
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse, Byford, HR4 7LD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081884
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse, Byford, HR4 7LD
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:
- Reading Room Cottage and Lower Farmhouse, Byford, HR4 7LD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Byford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 39686 42738
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/02/2018
SO 34 SE; 4/27
BYFORD CP,
BYFORD,
Reading Room Cottage, Lower Farmhouse
Formerly listed as: Wayside Cottages, Rozel Cottage and Wye Leys; Previously listed as Lower Farmhouse)
20.02.53
II
Farmhouse, three houses when surveyed. C17, restored late C20. Timber-frame with
painted brick infill on a rubble plinth with machine tile roof. L-plan,
cross-wing extending to east, other range to north. Chimney stack placed
centrally in latter range. North (street) front is of one storey with attic
lit by a flat-roofed dormer in the hipped gable end. Ground floor has
two single-light casements to left. Entrance central with a gabled tiled
canopy and a C20 ledged and boarded door. Framing: three square panels,
the gable of the cross-wing having three struts to the collar and a king
strut above.
Listing NGR: SO3968442732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149985
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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