Well Cottage
WELL COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082018
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Well Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WELL COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2001-11-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/06080/08
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082018
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Well Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELL COTTAGE
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:
- WELL COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bodenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 53034 51162
Details
BODENHAM CP BODENHAM SO 55, SW 5/26 Well Cottage GV II House. C17 with mid-C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Part timber-framed with rendered infill on sandstone rubble base with some painted brick replacement walling, part dressed sandstone rubble; plain tiled roofs. L-plan; main range aligned east/west of three bays having large external rubble chimney with offsets and brick stack at west end. Wing of two bays adjoins eastern end of south elevation and has a C19 external rubble chimney with a brick stack on its east side. Single storey and attic. Framing: three rows of square panels from sill to wall-plate. Collar and tie-beam trusses with struts and V-struts in apex at east end and south end of wing. Part of a possible fishbone truss visible at west end. South front elevation: main part has a C20 bow window on the ground floor inserted in an opening with a flat arch and a moulded dropped keyblock. To the right of it is the main entrance which has a C20 timber-framed gabled porch with a tall rubble base and a C20 glazed door within. At the south end of the wing is a 3-light C20 leaded casement at ground floor and attic level. The building is not marked on the 1813 map. Dr Brian has noted that it is referred to as "late Jay's" and "formerly Jays" in the building records. Jay's Bank Farmhouse originally stood to the east of Bodenham Court Farmhouse (qv) and was re-erected on its present site some time after 1813. (RCHM Herefs II, p 15, item 11; Brian, Dr A: The Houses of the Township of Bodenham Devereux and their inhabitants in the C19 and earlier, unpublished notes).
Listing NGR: SO5303451162
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149589
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brian, A, The Houses of the Township of Bodenham Devereux and their Inhabitants in the 19th Century and Earlier, ()
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 15
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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