Grange Farmhouse
GRANGE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1099800
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Grange Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GRANGE FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1099800
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Grange Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRANGE 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.
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:
- GRANGE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbey Dore
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 40346 31166
Details
SO 43 SW ABBEY DORE CP -
6/9 Grange Farmhouse
29.9.52
- II*
Farmhouse. Possibly C14 or C15 with late C16 to early C17 and later alterations and additions. Sandstone rubble plinth and south wall, timber-frame with plaster infill, brick, Welsh slate and tiled roofs, brick ridge stack. Cross-passage plan, three plus one structural bays aligned north/south with smaller elements at each end. Two storeys. West elevation has 2:1 windows, 2-light mid-C19 casement to left, 4-paned window to left of porch and 3-light casement in first floor of porch; ground floor has 3-light casement to left and two small windows, one to each side of granary steps on right-hand side. Frame is close-studded with four panels from cill to wall-plate; two-storey porch has arch braces from corner posts, close-studding to flanks and first floor with parallel raking struts from king-post to principals in gable front; ridge stack has coupled diagonal shafts, entry under porch has moulded frame, ledged and strap-hinged door possibly late C16; second entry with C17 ledged door at top of stone granary steps; attached to left is single-storey former solar part, with plank-and- muntin screen and moulded triangular door-head partly masked by brick stack; to the right is a mid- to late C19 single-storey brick extension, probably formerly a wash-house. East elevation of granary has first floor moulded re-positioned oriel window, without mullions, and probably cut down. Interior: C17 staircase with turned balusters. Several 2-centred moulded door-heads, one leading from present kitchen to possible former buttery, moulded and chamfered ceiling beams; room in porch, formerly a chapel, has elaborate plasterwork with fleur-de-lys, acorn patterns, grotesque head, rosettes and "IHS/1603". Main trusses each have three posts from tie to collar from which rises a central post to apex formed by principals. An exceptionally well preserved timber-framed building with elaborate Jacobean decoration (RCHM Vol I, p 9 - 10).
Listing NGR: SO4034631166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 155061
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 9-10
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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