Lower Ley Farmhouse
LOWER LEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101784
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Ley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER LEY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101784
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Ley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER LEY 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:
- LOWER LEY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westbury-on-Severn
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 75121 16072
Details
SO 71 NE WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN LOWER LEY
8/202 Lower Ley Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse; C16, C17, C18; timber-framing, on stone plinth, rendered infill, tiled roof; brick rear wing, English bond. Cross passage hall wing, cross wing, with long back wing at other end: 2 storey. Cross wing on left, high stone plinth, jettied first floor and gable, tension braces to each floor; each floor 2 panels high between braces. 3-light C20 window ground floor, 2- light first floor: mortices in underside of gable jetty for original canted oriel. Brick chimney on left corner of gable. Hall range, sill lower, 3-panel high timber-framing: 2-light C20 window to hall, 3-centred head to cross-passage door: original moulded sill to first floor window. At right a lean-to brick extension to front. Ridge chimney to left of cross passage. Internally large fireplace to hall; heavy chamfers to ceiling beams in hall and cross wing, small chamfers to exposed joists. Truss to right of cross passage built for lower roof and heightened when rest of hall range rebuilt. Remains of stone spiral stair found between chimney and front wall, covered by later straight flight. Rear wing 6 bays, principal rafter tenoned into brace from wallplate to floor beam. Wing originally contained the cider mill.
Listing NGR: SO7512116072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354283
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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