New Rock Farmhouse

NEW ROCK FARMHOUSE, KEMPLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1155611
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
New Rock Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
NEW ROCK FARMHOUSE, KEMPLEY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1155611
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
New Rock Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
NEW ROCK FARMHOUSE, KEMPLEY ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NEW ROCK FARMHOUSE, KEMPLEY ROAD

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:
Dymock
National Grid Reference:
SO 68569 30554

Details

DYMOCK KEMPLEY ROAD SO 63 SE (south side) 4/73 New Rock Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C17, altered early C19, late C20. Painted Flemish bond brickwork to ground floor, brick-nogged timber framing first floor, artificial stone tile roof. Three-bay main wing, lobby entry, 2- storey, one room deep, lean-to added to rear; 2-bay cross wing on right, 2½ storeys. Garden front: late C20 metal French doors on left: late C20 porch in position of original door on right, half- glazed, felt roof, French doors. Three-light casement to right, triangular buttress: 3-light C20 metal window in cross wing. First floor framing 2-panel high, angle-brace main posts to wallplate, framing cross wing separate from main block. Five-light and 3-light wooden casements main block, brick chimney in centre on ridge. Four-light casement in cross wing, 4 studs to gable truss over, single-light casement in apex. Cider house added to rear of cross wing, with press and C19 belt-driven mill. Internally, large fireplace, wooden surround, iron crane in left room; ceiling in right room divided into 6 by beams: timber- framed rear wall to main block survives on ground floor. Truss to cross wing tie beam, collar and angle struts: half trusses: 2 purlins, square ridge. Exterior rendered until mid C20. (the Rev. J.E. Gethyn-Jones, Dymock down the Ages, 1966)

Listing NGR: SO6856930554

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
125891
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gethyn-Jones, J E, Dymock down the Ages, (1966)

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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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