The Weir House and Flanking Walls
THE WEIR HOUSE AND FLANKING WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179766
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Weir House and Flanking Walls
- Statutory Address:
- THE WEIR HOUSE AND FLANKING WALLS
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- Date:
- 2001-11-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/06080/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179766
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Weir House and Flanking Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WEIR HOUSE AND FLANKING WALLS
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 WEIR HOUSE AND FLANKING WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bodenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 53550 51170
Details
BODENHAM CP BODENHAM SO 55 SW 5/25 The Weir House and flanking walls (formerly 11.6.59 listed as House immediately north of Bodenham Bridge) II House, once divided into two dwellings, now home for the elderly, and flanking walls. Circa 1730 rebuilding of C17 or earlier building with early C20 altera- tions. Handmade brick on sandstone base, some sandstone walling to rear and left side; plain tiled roofs, partly hipped with large end brick stacks. Two storeys and attic with dentilled eaves cornice. 1:3:1 bays; central three bays are surmounted by a large gable, the outer bays project as narrow hipped-roofed wings. Windows have gauged flat heads with dropped moulded keyblocks and are all glazing bar sashes with moulded architraves. There are two ground floor and three first first 18-pane sashes in the central part and also a round- headed sash within the gable at attic level with sandstone imposts. The flank- ing wings have narrow 12-pane sashes on both floors; the first floor windows have been blocked. The central entrance has a C20 gabled canopy on wrought iron brackets, a moulded architrave and a 6-panelled door, the upper four panels of which have been glazed. There is a continuous lean-to outshut with a cat- slide roof at rear. Interior: the central hall has an oak open well staircase with turned balusters, moulded brackets and handrail and panelled dado. There are ventilators in the attic ceilings which may indicate the house was once used as a maltings. The flanking walls are brick with sandstone coping and vary from about 15 feet high to a height of about 14 feet. Both walls are about six yards long and terminate in square piers. (BoE, p 77; Brian;Dr A: The Houses of the Township of Bodenham Devereux and their inhabitants in the C19 and earlier, unpublished notes).
Listing NGR: SO5355051170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149588
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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