Lower Ledge Farmhouse
LOWER LEDGE FARMHOUSE, DOYNTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212026
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Ledge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER LEDGE FARMHOUSE, DOYNTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212026
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Ledge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER LEDGE FARMHOUSE, DOYNTON LANE
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:
- LOWER LEDGE FARMHOUSE, DOYNTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dyrham and Hinton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 73316 74928
Details
ST 77 SW DYRHAM AND HINTON C.P. DOYNTON LANE (south side)
8/139 Lower Ledge Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Mid - late C17 with C19 alterations and refronting, C20 alterations. Roughly coursed limestone rubble, stone dressings and quoins, double Roman and pantiled roofs with brick gable stacks. U-plan, former through passage. 2 storeys and 5 windows, all 2-light casements with segmental heads, 2nd from right C20 door in moulded and stopped frame with cambered head; heads of first floor windows and upper courses of stonework different from lower, probably after C19 re-roofing. Left return has rear wing (formerly stable) with brick lean-to, 2 doors and 2 central windows, 4-pane to left and 8-pane to right, 2 dormers of 8 panes each, one 4-pane dormer. Right return has C20 door to rear of main house, rear wing has C20 door and 2 windows, 3-light casement under eaves, 8-pane dormer as at left, lower outhouse attached to right. Interior: front right room has chamfered beams, heavy wooden lintel to fireplace with former smoking chamber recess to right; wide entrance hall with chamfered and stopped beams and mortices for former screens, site of former stair to rear of passage; front left room has very wide timber lintel to fireplace. C19 straight stair to first floor, door with chamfered and stopped frame and cambered head, circular recess to rear for former stair.
Listing NGR: ST7331674928
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396536
- 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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