Orchard Farmhouse
ORCHARD FARMHOUSE, 149, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215520
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD FARMHOUSE, 149, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215520
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD FARMHOUSE, 149, HIGH STREET
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:
- ORCHARD FARMHOUSE, 149, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadway
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 10514 37539
Details
SP 1037 BROADWAY CP HIGH STREET (south side) 9/117 No 149 (Orchard Farmhouse) 30.7.59 GV II House. Early C17, extended and altered early C20 by A N Prentice. Lime- stone rubble with stone slate roof. Comprises a main range of three bays and a gabled cross-wing at the right (west). Two storeys with attic. Windows are rebated and chamfered with mullions, mostly with hoods. The cross-wing has a 5-light window on the ground floor, one of four lights on the first floor, and a 2-light attic window. Its left-hand return wall has a two- storey narrow gabled projection which has a one-light window with Tudor- arched head on each floor. The two left-hand bays of the main range, which may be a later addition, have 2-light windows and one attic dormer. The right-hand bay has a 5-light ground floor window and one of four lights above, partly within a gable. To its left is a small one-light window over the doorway, which is moulded with Tudor-arched head and a hood with lozenge stops. Chimney on left-hand gable, which is coped, has moulded cornice. Other chimneys, in line with doorway and to left of cross-wing, have diagonal shafts, lozenge friezes, and dentilled cornices. Adjoining to the left are early C20 additions of one storey. Set back immediately to the left is a range which has four mullioned windows and an attic lit by two flat-headed dormers. Adjoin- ing it at the left and set further back is a range which has two mullioned windows. At right-angles at the right is a former barn, converted to form part of the house and include a music room by Prentice. It has mullioned windows and its upper storey is lit by two gabled windows facing east. Below the northern gable is a 5-light window with two transoms. The south gable wall has a sundial plaque dated "1915".
Listing NGR: SP1051437539
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400758
- 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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