Bage Pool

BAGE POOL, B 4348

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1099477
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1952
List Entry Name:
Bage Pool
Statutory Address:
BAGE POOL, B 4348

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1099477
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Bage Pool
Statutory Address 1:
BAGE POOL, B 4348

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BAGE POOL, B 4348

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Dorstone
National Grid Reference:
SO 29828 43278

Details

SO 24 SE DORSTONE CP B 4348 (north side) The Bage

5/126 Bage Pool (formerly listed as Whitehouse Farmhouse)

29/9/52 GV II

Shown on OS as Whitehouse Farm, Bach. Farmhouse. Mid-C16 with later alterations and additions. Rubble, and timber-frame with wattle-and-daub infill, stone slate roof. L-plan, hall range extending west, cross-wing north; with C18 cider house at a slight angle to west end of hall range; hall originally framed, cross-wing of rubble; stack to west end of hall range with staircase on north side, door on south; and stack to north end of cross-wing with sprial staircase on west side, blocked entrance on east side both stacks with 2 diamond shafts. South front: 2 storeys, with attic to cross-wing at right. Hall range: 4 irregular sized windows, all 4-pane boxed sashes, C17 stack between 2 to right; ground floor: 3-light casement to left, roughly central angled bay window of 1:2:1 glazing bar sashes with hipped slate roof; cross- wing: 4-pane boxed sash to attic, 12-pane boxed sash to first floor, C20 ground floor French window. Straight joint between rubble wall and rubble of stack to left end of hall range. C18 cider house of 2 storeys with two 2-light casements under segmental heads to each floor, entrance to right with segmental head. North wall has exposed timber-framing to first floor, 2 square panels high, formerly jettied over ground floor, partially under- built in late C19 brick; lean-to timber structure probably late C16, contain- ing C19 dairy. Interior: 2 rooms of hall range divided by timber-framed partition, room to west probably kitchen originally. First floor divided by stud-and-plank partitions with their own top-plates, independent of ceiling beams, probably reset. Roof trusses have tie-beam and 2 trenched purlins, arranged in 5 bays over hall range (excluding chimney stack). (RCHM 1, p 57, no 15).

Listing NGR: SO2982843278

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Legacy System number:
153747
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 57

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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