Priory Farmhouse
PRIORY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167739
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167739
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE
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:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clifford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO2532944554
Details
SP 24 SE CLIFFORD CP
5/59 Priory Farmhouse
29/9/52
GV II*
Farmhouse incorporating part of former Cluniac priory. C14 priory with
C17 to C20 additions and alterations. Rubble, slate roofs. North/south range
of 5 roof bays, C14, enveloped at south end by U-block of late C17, cross-wing
added to north end in late C17; 2 large C17 stacks against east wall of main
north/south range. Two storeys, on cellar to south end. Garden (south) front:
chamfered plinth and string course, wooden modillioned cornice; originally
7 windows with flat stone heads, only the 2 right of centre have windows
(4-pane sashes with exposed sash boxes), rest blocked. Ground floor, 2 blocked
windows to left, C20 casement, central door, 2 sashes as above, and a small
2-light casement to right, all under flat heads. Door, under canopy with
lean-to slate roof, has 8 raised and fielded panels. Main front moved to west
elevation of this range in the early C19, which has an ashlar facade. Some
C17 wooden cross mullioned windows survive in east and west elevations.
Interior: roof of north/south range is of 5 bays, the south bay originally
separated off. Most of the roof is of arch braced collar trusses, tie-beam
trusses at each end, and to south bay, 2 purlins with 2 sets of cusped wind
braces. Cellar entry from garden (south) through short segmental headed
tunnel under terrace, with reset C13 arch (2-centred head, filleted roll
moulding) to cellar entrance, battened door possibly C16 or C17. There are some
loose fragments of worked stone on the wall to the west of the house, probably
C13 (not included). (RCHM 1, pp 40/41, no 5; Bismanis 1975, pp 120/123, pl 21).
Listing NGR: SO2532944554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153680
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 40-41
Bismanis, M R, Minor Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages in the Counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire, (1975), 120-123
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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