Rhydspence Inn
RHYDSPENCE INN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157306
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Rhydspence Inn
- Statutory Address:
- RHYDSPENCE INN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157306
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Rhydspence Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- RHYDSPENCE INN
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:
- RHYDSPENCE INN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brilley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 24331 47322
Details
BRILLEY CP RHYDSPENCE SO 24 NW 4/30 Rhydspence Inn 19.8.53 - II House, now public house. C16 with mid-C19 and late C20 alterations. Timber-framed with rendered infill on rubble base with some coursed rubble walling; stone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses with rubble stack at centre and north-east end of ridge. Four framed bays aligned north-east/ south-west with large central chimney and also a porch wing on the north-west side. Two storeys. Framing: mainly two rows of close-set studding per storey. Four rows of square panels from sill to wall-plate in part of south-east elevation with small solid braces in the upper corners. South-west end has a jettied first floor and a renewed chamfered bressummer with pendant ball finials at each end (one renewed). Above is a tie-beam truss with close-set and diagonal struts. Porch wing has two rows of close-set studding at first floor level and the first floor is jettied with a plain bressummer on shaped brackets and with pendant finials at each end. North-west front elevation: windows are mainly C19 casements. There is a 5-light window, a 2-light window and a 2-light C20 casement on the ground floor and a 4-light and a 3- light window on th first floor. The porch wing has inner and outer segmental archways, a first floor 2-light C20 casement and, within, are plank and battened studded double doors. To the left of the porch is a lean-to addition with a catslide roof and a verandah at first floor level. This has a square ground floor window and door and steps at the left side of the proch lead up to the verandah and to an inserted C20 glazed double doorway. To the left of this lean-to is a C20 addition with a 3-light first floor window. There is a further C20 single-storey addition at the north-east end. Interior: stop- chamfered main ceiling beams. Fireplaces have been altered. (RCHM, III, p 25, item 24: BoE, p 86).
Listing NGR: SO2433147322
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150583
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 25
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 86
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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