Great Parton Farmhouse

GREAT PARTON FARMHOUSE, A4112

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1082524
Date first listed:
19-Aug-1953
List Entry Name:
Great Parton Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
GREAT PARTON FARMHOUSE, A4112
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1082524
Date first listed:
19-Aug-1953
Date of most recent amendment:
31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Great Parton Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
GREAT PARTON FARMHOUSE, A4112

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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:
GREAT PARTON FARMHOUSE, A4112

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Eardisley
National Grid Reference:
SO 31740 48292

Details

EARDISLEY CP A 4112 (south side) SO 34 NW 6/48 Great Parton Farmhouse (formerly listed as 19.8.53 Parton Farmhouse) GV II Farmhouse. Early C17, extended early C18 with mid-C19 alterations. Part timber-framed with brick infill on rubble base with some brick refacing and coursed rubble walling, part handmade brick. Stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses, gable-end parapets with kneelers and tumbled brickwork to C18 part; brick ridge stacks, (stacks to main ridge rebuilt late C20) and also brick stack to north-west main roof. Original part is L-plan, composed of two-bay main range aligned north/south with external chimney at south end and having a single-bay north-east wing. A T-plan addition was built in the C18 at the south gable end enclosing the chimney and forming a lobby entrance at the centre of the east front. Two storeys, attic and cellar; chamfered plinth and three-course band at first floor level. Framing: original part has three and four rows of square panels exposed at first floor level. North-east wing has decorative concave lozenge detail at its gable end. Collar and tie-beam trusses with struts; north end truss has two collars. North-east truss has decorative concave lozenge detail. East front elevation: windows have cambered brick heads. Central range has one ground floor and two first floor 3-light casements. The left ground floor bay has a 4-light casement inserted into a smaller opening. Central entrance has a gabled timber porch and a 6-panelled door. C18 wing to left has a ground floor mullioned-and-transomed window at its gable end, a similar window on the first floor (now blocked and painted in) and also on the first floor in the angle with main range. The original wing to the right has a rectangular light on the ground floor. There is a C19 lean-to addition in the left angle with aledged and battened door; within it conceals a blocked window opening, and two blocked doorways. A similar lean-to addition in the right angle has been removed. Interior: original part has chamfered main ceiling beams. Central chimney has back-to-back fireplaces. Also recorded to have two early C18 fireplaces. (RCHM, III, p 56, item 60; BoE, p 120).

Listing NGR: SO3174048292

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
150602
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 56
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 120

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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