Derelict Pair of Cottages About 160 Metres East North East of Lower House Farmhouse
DERELICT PAIR OF COTTAGES ABOUT 160 METRES EAST NORTH EAST OF LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111811
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Derelict Pair of Cottages About 160 Metres East North East of Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DERELICT PAIR OF COTTAGES ABOUT 160 METRES EAST NORTH EAST OF LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2005-07-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/14522/20
- Rights:
- © Mr John Burrows. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111811
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Derelict Pair of Cottages About 160 Metres East North East of Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DERELICT PAIR OF COTTAGES ABOUT 160 METRES EAST NORTH EAST OF LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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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:
- DERELICT PAIR OF COTTAGES ABOUT 160 METRES EAST NORTH EAST OF LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Preston on Wye
- National Grid Reference:
- SO3878341828
Details
PRESTON-ON-WYE -
SO 34 SE
1562-/4/10000
Derelict pair of cottages
about 160 metres E NE
of Lower House
Farmhouse
- II
House subdivided into 2 cottages. Circa late C15 early C16,
hall floored in circa late C16 or early C17 and subdivided
into 2 cottages in C18/19. Timber-framed with wattle-and-daub
panels; weatherboarded and partly rebuilt in stone rubble.
Gable-ended roof clad in corrugated steel sheets.
PLAN: Surviving high end of a medieval hall house, comprising 1
bay of an open hall with parlour and solar to left (N)
separated by closed truss. In circa late C16 or early C17 hall
was floored and in the C18/19 the house was subdivided into 2
cottages, when axial partitions and stairs were inserted and a
stack was built into the west front wall.
EXTERIOR:2 storeys. S front is stone on ground floor and
weatherboarded above and has doorway to left and right. The
rear east has much exposed timber-framing with square panels
infilled with wattle-and-daub and with large tension brace on
right. S end stone ground floor, sheet steel above.
N end is weatherboarded above lean-to outshut. Cruck-trusses
partly exposed in both end gables.
INTERIOR: 2 bays, N bay is solar and parlour, S bay originally
open to roof. 3 full cruck trusses, centre truss closed;
centre and N truss with dovetail lapped collars; hall S truss
with curved braces to higher tenoned collar; trenched diagonal
ridgepiece; chamfered side purlins on backs of cruck blades;
common rafters mostly intact. S bay is smoke-blackened and has
inserted floor with deeply-chamfered axial beam with straight
stops and unchamfered joists. N bay (parlour) has large
chamfered axial joists, closely spaced. Remains of
shoulder-headed doorway in hall-parlour partition. Both rooms
have later axial partitions and staircases and a shared stone
lateral stack on the front west wall.
Listing NGR: SO3878341828
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355168
- 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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