Winsley House

WINSLEY HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1082031
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:
Winsley House
Statutory Address:
WINSLEY HOUSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1082031
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1959
Date of most recent amendment:
21-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Winsley House
Statutory Address 1:
WINSLEY 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WINSLEY HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hope under Dinmore
National Grid Reference:
SO 48362 52732

Details

HOPE UNDER DINMORE CP SO 45 SE 4/61 Winsley House 11.6.59 II

Farmhouse: C14, part rebuilt early C16, extended early C17, part refaced late C18 with further late C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Part coursed sand- stone rubble, part timber-framed with rendered infill and some brick refacing and tile-hanging; machine tiled and corrugated iron roofs with brick ridge stacks. C14 core lies to north-west, south and east wings rebuilt early C16 and porch added. South wing extended early C18 to form L-plan. Late in C18 the north and west fronts were rebuilt or refaced in brick and the east wing extended. Two storeys and attic. Framing: ground floor rebuilt in stone. First floor mainly of close set studding and jettied on moulded bressummers. The gables are also all jettied on moulded bressummers and shaped brackets and have collar and tie=beam trusses with close-set struts. An east gable has a moulded and embattled bressummer and the porch wing has bargeboards carved with a defaced inscription in early C16 capitals: "[Per signum tau] libera nos Jeesu". North front: five bays surmounted by gable with parapet. Windows all have gauged flat heads and have been replaced with C20 cross- casements. There is a blind lunette in the gable. The central entrance has an open pediment, engaged columns, a half-glazed door and a plain fanlight. To the right of the five-bay part the brick refacing is continued and there is a two-storey canted bay window with C20 cross-casements. To the right of the bay window the wall ends in brick quoins and adjoins the gable end of the inter- secting west wing which has a C20 ground floor 3-light casement. Interior: C14 part recorded to have an open roof of three byas with collar and tie-beam trusses, the main trusses having central-struts beneath the collars, and cusped wind-braces. The kitchen is recorded to have an early C16 ceiling divided into panels by moulded beams and a room in the south wing has a late C16 plaster panel in the ceiling with a fleur-de-lis, roses and cherub heads. Other rooms have epxosed ceiling beams. (RCHM, Herefs III, p 70, item 3; BoE, p 196).

Listing NGR: SO4836252732

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
149624
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 70
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 196

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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