LOWER TOWNEND

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1156813
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: LOWER TOWNEND
Statutory Address:: LOWER TOWNEND

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Date:: 2005-06-07
Reference:: IOE01/14456/31
Rights:: © Mr John Burrows. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1156813
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: LOWER TOWNEND
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER TOWNEND

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LOWER TOWNEND

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bosbury
National Grid Reference:: SO7112143098

Details

BOSBURY CP

SO 74 SW 7/40 Lower Townend

II

House. C16 or C17 fragment of larger building incorporating C15 truss of an earlier structure, C20 minor additions. Timber-framed with rendered infill and part painted brick infill, sandstone plinth and stack with brick shafts, tiled roof. Two framed bays aligned east/west with entrance in south face, C20 addition to east gable end, large axial stack toward west end. Single storey and attic; north front, large gabled dormer with 3-light casement window, 2-light window to ground floor, and single light in small projection to left. Three conjoined star-plan shafts to stack. Framing: irregular three square panels with large swept brace from sill to central main post. Interior: central upper cruck truss (possibly a full cruck but lower section not visible) with cusped struts to collar; large open fireplace with moulded surround to ground floor, fragments of plastered decoration in upper room.

Listing NGR: SO7112143098

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 153005
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.