The Old Farmhouse
THE OLD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178662
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11435/08
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178662
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD 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:
- THE OLD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leinthall Starkes
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 43442 69589
Details
LEINTHALL STARKES CP LEINTHALL STARKES SO 46 NW 6/39 The Old Farmhouse 11.6.59 II Farmhouse, divided into two dwellings, now one house. Probable C16 origins, extended early Cl7, part rebuilt and altered late C18, restored late C20. Part timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill on rubble base, some painted rubble and brick replacement walling, part sandstone rubble with brick dressings; slate roofs. Hall and cross-wing plan; original hall part aligned north-east/south-west with large chimney at south-west end; cross-wing of two framed bays added to north-east end with large external rubble chimney on its south-west side. Hall rebuilt in late C18 and large external cross-wing chimney also partly rebuilt and two diagonal brick stacks added. (The plan was sub-divided laterally in the C19 when converted into two dwellings). Two storeys, attic and cellar. Framing: cross-wing has two rows of square panels per storey with diagonal struts (two per panel) at first floor level combining to form diaper patterns at gable ends and a staggered chevron design on the north-east side. Both upper floors are slightly jettied at gable ends on moulded bressummers with run- out chamfer stops (a detail repeated internally) and moulded corbels. The north-west gable has a collar and tie-beam truss with two collars, eight struts to lower collar and four ornamental cusped braces, four struts to upper collar and concave cusped bracing in the apex. The south-east end truss has been largely replaced. Windows are mainly C18 leaded casements. North-west front: hall part has a 2-light ground floor window with a cambered head, a gabled half-dormer with a 2-light window and a four- panelled door. There is a C19 brick stack to the right side of the roof pitch. The gable-end of the cross-wing has a 3-light and a 2-light ground floor window, a 4-light first floor window and a C20 attic light. The external chimney on the south-east elevation has the following inscription incised on a chamfered corner section about four feet from the base: "John Lychmore/June 10 1779". There is a C20 half-glazed lean-to addition adjoin- ing the south-east elevation of the hall. Interior: main ceiling beams and fireplace lintels in cross-wing have similar run-out stop chamfers to bressummers. Flagstone floors and some old doors survive. (RCHM, Herefs, Vol III, p 105; BoE, p 222).
Listing NGR: SO4344269589
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150218
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 105
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 222
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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