Willersley Court
WILLERSLEY COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1157569
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Willersley Court
- Statutory Address:
- WILLERSLEY COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1157569
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Willersley Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLERSLEY COURT
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:
- WILLERSLEY COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Willersley and Winforton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 31178 47429
Details
WILLERSLEY CP WILLERSLEY so 34 NW 6/118 Willersley Court 19.8.53 - II* Farmhouse. Early C16, altered and refaced early to mid-C18 with further mid-C19 alterations. Timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill on rubble base, partly faced with C18 brickwork. Slate roofs with tall brick stack at west end of main ridge. H-plan comprised of three-bay hall range aligned east/west with cross-wings at both ends and probably both of two bays. The east crows-wing has an external rubble chimney with a brick stack at its east side. Two storeys with cellars. Framing: visible at rear. Four rows of panels from sill to wall-plate and collar and tie-beam trusses with struts. South front elevation: 2:3:2 bays. Windows are all 12-pane sashes with cambered heads. The central first floor window of the main range is blind. The central entrance has a gabled timber porch and a C20 door. There is a lean-to outshut at the west side with a C20 door and square left side light in its south elevation. Interior: has moulded ceiling beams and joists; a room in the west wing has exposed joists laid flat. Also in the west wing there are two rooms lined with early C17 panelling which has a frieze and cornice. In one of these rooms there is a fireplace flanked by fluted pilasters and with an overmantel of five arcaded panels; the east and west walls have moulded wall-posts with linenfold panels on the face, cut out of the solid. There are also recorded to be two early C18 fireplaces else- where with moulded surrounds. (RCHM, III, p 211, item 2; BoE, p 320).
Listing NGR: SO3117847429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150673
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 211
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 320
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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