Butthouse
BUTTHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081989
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Butthouse
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081989
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Butthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTHOUSE
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:
- BUTTHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Pyon
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 44192 48812
Details
KING'S PYON CP - SO 44 NW 4/44 Butthouse 20.2.53 GV II
House. Early C17 with C18, C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Sandstone rubble, brick and timber-frame with brick nogging. Tiled roofs and sandstone rubble side stack with brick shafts. L-plan with wings to west-north-west and north- north-west. Two storeys and attics. Garden front to east has 1:1:1:1:1 windows, mid-C20 steel casements of two and three lights. Projecting gables to left and right of centre have 3-light casements and close-studded timber-framing above ground storey. Behind these gables are more steeply pitched larger gables with widely spaced framing and curved struts above collars. Central entry beneath projection has two-leaved mid-C20 door with transom light. North elevation has two large sandstone side stacks. Entry in angle has four ex situ corbel-heads in parapet of porch. West gable has two similar corbel- heads probably recovered from the demolished Wormsley Priory, the site of which is nearby. Interior (access refused). (BoE, p 207; RCHM, Vol III, p 87).
Listing NGR: SO4419248812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149725
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 87
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 207
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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