Rockyfold Farmhouse
ROCKYFOLD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223694
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Rockyfold Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROCKYFOLD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223694
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Rockyfold Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCKYFOLD 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:
- ROCKYFOLD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Michaelchurch Escley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 31618 33681
Details
SO 33 SW MICHAELCHURCH ESCLEY CP -
4/56 Rockyfold Farmhouse
-
- II
Farmhouse. Probably C17, altered in C20. Thinly coursed rubble; asbestos slate, corrugated iron and stone slate roof. C20 brick gable end chimneys. L-plan longhouse derivative. Two-bay cross-wing at south end of 2-bay north/ south range which extends to north as byre (1 bay) and later C19 cow house and loft (also one bay); C20 lean-to in re-entrant angle and to part of south flank of cross-wing. East elevation: wide gable to left with rebuilt chimney, small stair-light to left and wider (former 5-light mullioned) window to right, raking-top dormer in return; north/south range has C20 rebuilt walling, raking- top dormer, 3-light casement to ground floor with concrete lintol and C20 gabled porch to right. The cow-byre extension with tin roof has a blocked doorway with a slab-hood and to the right, the present door; to the right again, a C20 window with concrete lintol; the right hand bay (under stone slate roof) is slightly taller and has a loft door. South flank has a depressed 2-centred arch head doorway at west end; there is another at west entrance to cow byre (now masked by later buildings). Interior: one pair of cruck blades, truncated below collar level in byre just north of its junction with domestic part; formerly a plank and muntin screen divided the 2 bays of the cross-wing; diamond section mullion slots in window opening at first floor level between the 2 byres; similar slots in opening for 4-light window in ground floor west wall of south byre.
Listing NGR: SO3161833681
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419485
- 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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