The Wern Farmhouse
THE WERN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180083
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Wern Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE WERN FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180083
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Wern Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WERN 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 WERN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brilley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 24256 48644
Details
BRILLEY CP - SO 24 NW 4/24 The Wern Farmhouse 19.8.53 GV II Farmhouse. Circa 1400, altered C17, mid-C19 and mid-C20. Part rubble (rendered to rear) and timber-framed with machine tiled roof and three brick ridge stacks, part rubble; timber-framed and weatherboarded with corrugated metal roof. Hall and cross-wing plan; hall part of four cruck-framed bays aligned east/west, including a through-passage bay and having the main chimney backing onto the passage. Cross-wing of three framed bays is situated at the west end and is not in use at present. Single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: not visible externally, South front elevation: windows have timber lintels. There are two 3-light casements and a 2-light casement on the ground floor, two gabled dormers with 3-light casements and a gabled porch on timber posts with a partly-glazed door within. The cross- wing gable end to the left has a door and a loft opening. Interior: two pairs of full cruck blades were visible; five pairs are recorded to survive. The former hall has an inserted C17 ceiling divided into six compartments by stop-chamfered beams. The cross-wing retains much of its medieval roof although it has been raised on the west side. It has three main moulded arch-braced collar trusses, two subsidiary collar and tie-beam trusses with raking struts, two tiers of cusped wind-braces, and two tiers of purlins. (RCHM, III, p 25, item 28; Alcock, NW: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).
Listing NGR: SO2425648644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150577
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 25
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)
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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