Lower House

LOWER HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1166517
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Lower House
Statutory Address:
LOWER HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1166517
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Lower House
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER HOUSE

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
LOWER HOUSE

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Staunton on Wye
National Grid Reference:
SO 36817 45277

Details

STAUNTON-ON-WYE CP - SO 34 NE 4/111 Lower House GV II

Farmhouse. Probably C17 with C18 and later alterations. Timber-frame with brick and plaster infill, sandstone rubble and brick, partly roughcast. Tiled roofs and sandstone rubble and brick stacks. T-plan with cross-wing at west end and southern projection at east end. One and two storeys and attic. South elevation has 2:1:1 windows with a gable to each side. Central window is a 4-light leaded casement in a gabled dormer, probably early C20. Entry to right of left-hand gable. Frame of cross-wing is four panels high from cill to wall-plate. Interior inaccessible at time of re-survey (November 1986). (RCHM, Vol III, p 187).

Listing NGR: SO3681745277

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
150480
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 187

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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