PRIORY FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1167739
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1952
List Entry Name:: PRIORY FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: PRIORY FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1167739
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1952
List Entry Name:: PRIORY FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PRIORY FARMHOUSE

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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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.