Bodcott Farmhouse
BODCOTT FARMHOUSE, B 4348
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1168073
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bodcott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BODCOTT FARMHOUSE, B 4348
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1168073
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bodcott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BODCOTT FARMHOUSE, B 4348
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:
- BODCOTT FARMHOUSE, B 4348
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 33747 43103
Details
SO 34 SW DORSTONE CP B 4352 (south side)
6/132 Bodcott Farmhouse
29/9/52 II*
Farmhouse. Mid-C16, with mid-C17 and later additions. Rubble, timber- frame with some wattle-and-daub and some brick infill; stone slate roof. Floored hall with cross-wings, hall aligned east/west; the east cross-wing of 4 framed bays, and south porch, mid-C16, porch enters hall at junction with east cross-wing; rest of house mid-C17 with a further entrance at junction of hall and west wing, into lobby; stacks at each end of hall with diamond shafts, also a blocked C16 stack on south end of east wall of east wing (shafts removed), with adjoining spiral staircase, also blocked. South front: 2 storeys, gabled cross-wing to left (west): C17 casements, 2-light above 5-light, the latter with a transom, chamfered mullions, gable of timber: multiple V-struts rising from king post; small gabled C19 porch to entrance at junction with hall; C17 5-light casement to left, one to each floor, ground floor with transom, mullions chamfered; porch at junction with east cross-wing: close-studded first floor on rubble base, moulded segmental outer doorhead of timber, west wall ground floor window with diamond mullions; east cross-wing: C19 casement to first floor, close-studded framing with mid-rail and straight angle braces jettied over C17 angled bay window, partially obscured by 2 mid-C20 stone piers supporting jetty; gable: close-studded to collar, V-struts to king post in apex. Side walls of this cross-wing are framed on first floor, 3 square panels high. Interior: ground floor of east cross-wing: south room (of 2 bays): moulded ceiling beams, hearth blocked and room sub-divided by mid-C17 timber-frame partition; north room (also of 2 bays) contains cider press (probably C17) and cider mill. Rooms above retain traces of wall paintings on the beams, formerly across whole surface, floral and fleur-de-lys designs in lozenges outlined in red. (RCHM 1, p 57, no 13).
Listing NGR: SO3374743103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153753
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 57
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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