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MAINSTONE HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1156383
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1952
Statutory Address:: MAINSTONE HOUSE

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Date:: 11 May 2002
Reference:: IOE01/06687/05
Rights:: © Mr Derek C. Harrison. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1156383
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1952
Statutory Address 1:: MAINSTONE HOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MAINSTONE HOUSE

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pixley
National Grid Reference:: SO 65614 39604

Details

PIXLEY CP TRUMPET SO 63 NE Mainstone House 5/131

18.11.52 GV II

Farmhouse. Probably C17 to C18 with C19 alterations. Timber-frame, partly cased in sandstone and partly rendered, tiled roofs and brick stacks. L-plan with wings to east and north. Cellar and two storeys. South elevation of three windows, first floor has 2- and 3-light C19 casements; ground floor a 9-pane and 6-pane early C19 casement to left, and a late C20 glazing bar bow window to the right of roughly central C20 door with gabled canopy; roof hipped to left. Return C19 elevation to west is stone, has three windows, tripartite sashes to ground floor and a central 6-panelled C19 door. North gable has exposed timber-framing with V-struts from collar. Interior has rear frame of east/west range exposed, elaborate run-out chamfer-stops; a priest hole is said to exist in the east end of the upper floor of the east wing. (RCHM Vol II, p 155).

Listing NGR: SO6561439604

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 152796
Legacy System:: LBS

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Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 155

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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.