Lower House Farmhouse
LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082464
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082464
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Huntington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO2504853682
Details
HUNTINGTON CP HUNTINGTON
SO 25 SE
2/111
19/8/53
Lower House Farmhouse
(Formerly Listed as Lower
House)
II
Farmhouse. Late C16, altered and refaced mid- to late C18 with further
mid-C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Timber-framed, partly rendered and partly
refaced or rebuilt in rubble with rubble additions. Slate roofs; roof of
main range is half-hipped at east end and hipped at west end. T-plan; main
range of three bays aligned east/west with intersecting cross-wing of two
framed bays at east end. Cross-wing has an external rendered rubble chimney
with moulded capping to stack at its west side elevation. Two storeys and
attic. Framing: not visible externally. North front elevation: main range
has two ground floor windows, one is blocked and has a rusticated lintel
and raised keyblock, the other has a 3-light C19 casement. There are two
3-light casements and a 2-light casement on the first floor, all with
rusticated lintels and raised keyblocks. Main entrance to left has a C20
gabled timber porch and a ledged and battened door. Cross-wing to right has
a first floor 3-light casement at its gable end and there is a door in the
angle with a blind, pointed transom light. Attic light at east end. A single-
bay C19 wing adjoins the east end of two storeys. It has a first floor 2-light
casement with a re-used held corbel beneath the sill and a partly-glazed C20
door in its north elevation. C20 single-storey addition to rear left.
Interior not inspected by the c oss-wing framing is said to be intact and have
square panels. (RCHM, III, p 77, item 13).
Listing NGR: SO2504853682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150666
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 77
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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