New House
NEW HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1099457
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- New House
- Statutory Address:
- NEW HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1099457
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- New House
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEW HOUSE
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:
- NEW HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Goodrich
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 56335 19528
Details
SO 51 NE GOODRICH CP -
6/12 New House
II* 18.5.53
Former vicarage, now farmhouse. Dated 1636. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roof, timber-framed internal walls. Unusual Y-shaped plan of 3 radiating wings to north, south-east and south-west, each with external lateral stack, main entrance in north-east face of south-east wing. Three storey canted bay to gable end of south-west wing later extension with further C20 lean-to to west return of north wing. Three storeys and basement; chamfered plinth and two moulded string courses, raised verges and shaped corbels, stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and metal casements throughout. North-east entrance elevation: 2-storey gabled porch (restored C20) abuts to left of stack, 3-light window with leaded casements below gable, porch supported on two Doric columns, date inscribed on capital of right column, 4-centred arched doorway set in square-headed opening with chamfered jambs, heavy ledged door, one 3-light window and one 4-light window below to east return face of north wing. Interior: greatly altered; 3 stone fireplaces with chamfered jambs and 4-centred arched heads to ground floor and one on first floor of south-east wing. Ovolo stop-chamfered ceiling beams and partly-exposed internal timber-framing. The panelled staircase mentioned by the RCHM is no longer extant. Probably built for the Rev Thomas Swift, a staunch Royalist, who was rector of the Parish at that time, father of the author Jonathan Swift. The Y-plan is an interesting conceit, possibly alluding to the Trinity. (RCHM, Vol I, p 80/1).
Listing NGR: SO5633519528
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153804
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 80-81
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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