WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING GRANARY

WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING GRANARY, A417

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1082050
Date first listed:: 21-May-1987
List Entry Name:: WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING GRANARY
Statutory Address:: WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING GRANARY, A417

View of old farm house with stone granary beside & paddock in front.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1082050
Date first listed:: 21-May-1987
List Entry Name:: WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING GRANARY
Statutory Address 1:: WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING GRANARY, A417

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING GRANARY, A417

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 55024 51864

Details

BODENHAM CP off A 417 (east side) SO 55 SE 6/5 Wood House Farmhouse and adjoining granary GV II Farmhouse and adjoining granary. Circa 1600 with late C17, mid-C18, mid-C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Part sandstone rubble, part timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill. on rubble base: Slate roofs and large rubble ridge stack with brick shaft to main range. T-plan; main range of roughly three bays aligned north/south; with large central chimney and through-passage to north side of chimney:. Large cross-wing added at south end, (probably C18). Part two storeys, part single storey and attic with dormer and part three storeys. Framing: three panels from sill to wall-plate; no trusses visible. West front elevation: main range has a ground floor 3- light casement with a cambered brick head, a first floor 3-light casement and a raking-top dormer also with a 3-light casement. Entrance to left of central stack has a lean-to canopy on straight brackets and a door of four flush panels. Cross-wing is of substantial proportions and windows have wedge lintels; the gable end has a tripartite ground floor sash window with a central four-pane sash, a first floor 3-light C20 casement, a second floor tripartite plain sash and moulded bargeboards. There is a brick stack on the south side of the roof. In the angle with the main range is a large lean-to addition: It has a 3-light C20 casement with a wedge lintel and the main entrance which has a lean-to canopy on metal brackets and a door of three flush panels in its west side: There is a tall brick stack on its north aide: The granary wing adjoins the north end of the main range and runs west; C17, and built of sandstone rubble with a slate roof, two bays, two levels. There are external sandstone steps leading up to a ledged and battened door on its south side. Old purlin ends visible at west gable end. (RCHM Herefs, Vol II, p 16, item 31; Brian, Dr A: The Houses of the Township of Bodenham Devereux and their inhabitants in the C19 and earlier, unpublished notes).

Listing NGR: SO5502451864

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Legacy System number:: 149568
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 16
Brian, A, The Houses of the Township of Bodenham Devereux and their Inhabitants in the 19th Century and Earlier

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.