Cobhall Farmhouse

COBHALL FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1099728
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Cobhall Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
COBHALL FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1099728
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Cobhall Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
COBHALL FARMHOUSE

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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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:
COBHALL FARMHOUSE

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Allensmore
National Grid Reference:
SO 45188 35938

Details

ALLENSMORE CP - SO 43 NE 3/6 15/7 Cobhall Farmhouse 26.1.67 GV II Farmhouse. Probably C15 or C16 with C17 and C18 extensions and later alterations. Timber-frame with brick infill partly rendered. Welsh slate and tiled roof. Large central brick stack. Irregular plan comprising north/south main range with cross-wing to south and another wing extending eastwards at north end. Cellar and two storeys. South elevation is rendered with three windows, 3-light late C20 glazing bar casements. Ground floor has two more such windows, one to left and one to right hand side. Entry with ledged door in right gable. West elevation has C17 timber porch with low 2-centred outer arched lintel supporting splat balusters. Three more splat balusters to each return. Doorway within porch has jambs with deep mouldings running out into tassel motifs at their bases. To the right, set in irregular timber- framing is a 4-light mullioned and transomed ovolo moulded oriel with a wrought- iron casement, the whole glazed with quarries. North wing has more regular exposed framing three panels high from cill to wall-plate. Attached to east end of north wing is an C18 or early C19 brick extension. Interior noted as having panelled ceilings in ground floor room of south cross-wing. RCHM noted inter alia elaborate Jacobean carvings on a fireplace overmantel, carved frieze with dolphins and doorways with 4-centred heads. (RCHM, Vol I, p 16 - 17).

Listing NGR: SO4518835938

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Legacy System number:
155306
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 16-17

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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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