Lower Farmhouse

LOWER FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1091774
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
Lower Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LOWER FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1091774
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
Lower Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER FARMHOUSE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
LOWER FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:
Coberley
National Grid Reference:
SO 97770 15712

Details

COBERLEY UPPER COBERLEY SO 91 NE

5/65 Lower Farmhouse

24.6.83

II

Former farmhouse. Possibly C16, mostly C17, extended C19 in two phases. Early range limestone rubble; C19 extension coursed squared and dressed limestone with dressed stone quoins; stone slate and artificial slate roof with ashlar stacks. The early range was probably originally 'L'-shaped in plan but was partially rebuilt and extended in the C19 on the east side. Two storeys with cellar and attic. The south facing wall of the early range: two buttresses and a projecting stack; C20 wooden casements with concrete lintels to the ground floor; mid-late C19 metal casements with small glazed panes to the upper floor; two roof dormers. North front, with early range projecting forwards right: C20 two- light wooden casement with glazing bars and a concrete lintel to the ground floor, smaller 2-light wooden casement above; single 16-pane sash within a dressed stone surround to the left of a C20 lean-to porch; concealing fielded double doors with a 3-pane hall light above; two similar 16-pane sashes to the first floor. Twin gables facing the road with 16-pane sashes; 2-light stone- mullioned window to the cellar under the right-hand gable wall. East front: large 3-light window with horizontal glazing bars to the right of a plank stable-type doorway within an articifial stone surround; two C19 casements with small panes and one C20 casement with glazing bars to the upper floor. Gable-end and axial stacks, two with moulded cappings. Interior: beams with deep flat chamfers. Part of the main downstairs room has intersecting beams and an early segmental- headed fireplace with imposts; large 4-centred arched fireplace with carved spandrels containing small square stone plaques in the same room, both fireplaces have been mutilated prior to being walled in. Bread oven with a segmental-headed brick opening to the right of the larger fireplace. Blocked opening with a flat- chamfered surround to the left of the fireplace, possibly containing a small spiral staircase. Large open fireplace with a flat-chamfered surround in another room. Upstairs room with narrow intersecting beams. Barrel-vaulted cellar.

Listing NGR: SO9777015712

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Legacy System number:
135017
Legacy System:
LBS

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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