Maentwlch

MAENTWLCH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1098660
Date first listed:
12-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Maentwlch
Statutory Address:
MAENTWLCH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1098660
Date first listed:
12-Nov-1984
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:
Maentwlch
Statutory Address 1:
MAENTWLCH

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MAENTWLCH

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bacton
National Grid Reference:
SO 36676 34624

Details

In the entry for the CIVIL PARISH OF BACTON 5/6 Mantooth

The address shall be amended to read CIVIL PARISH OF BACTON Maentwlch

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SO 33 SE BACTON CP -

5/6 Mantooth

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- II

Cottage. Possibly late C17 - early C18, extended c1976. Rubble, timber- frame, stone tiled roof, brick infill panels, stone end chimney with bread oven and detached brick shaft to west, brick end stack to east. One storey and attic, 3 bays, rubble base with weathered top extends to cills of upper windows; regularly spaced C19 casements: two 6-paned to ground floor and two 4-paned to attic, entrance via C19 porch and ledged door to west gable end. Frame: one panel high above rubble base to front, otherwise 3 panels high from cill to wall-plate. Interior: cyma stop chamfers to beams of the 2 ground floor rooms. Ledged C18 - early C19 door to cellar beneath C20 extension. Completely stone flagged floors to C17 - C18 part. Very heavy slightly cambered tie-beams forming A frame with collars. Small first floor chamber to north side of western chimney roughly above bread oven. The building lies in the area affected by Rowland Vaughan's water-works and irrigation scheme of the late C16 when sluices and a "Trench Royal" were introduced in the west side of the Golden Valley. (Woolhope Club Transactions, 1936, p 35, and 1974, pp 253/5).

Listing NGR: SO3667634624

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
153609
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Transactions of Woolhope Naturalists Field Club in Transactions of Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, (1936), 35
Transactions of Woolhope Naturalists Field Club in Transactions of Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, (1974), 253-5

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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