Woodhouse Farmhouse
WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE, BROMYARD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224740
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Woodhouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE, BROMYARD ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14770/20
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224740
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Woodhouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE, BROMYARD ROAD
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:
- WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE, BROMYARD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ledbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 68995 41212
Details
LEDBURY RURAL CP BROMYARD ROAD SO 64 SE Staplow (off west side)
1/75 Woodhouse Farmhouse (formerly listed as Wood House) 18.11.52
- II*
Farmhouse. C14, altered subsequently. Timber-frame, painted brick and some wattle-and-daub infil; plain tiled roof and off-centre brick stack. T-plan, cross-passage with hall at left and solar cross-wing at far left. Single storey and attics in gabled dormers; 2 storeys to the cross-wing, the north gable of which has a cusped bargeboard. Later C19 and C20 lean-to across most of facade. Three C20 windows and off-centre C20 door. Projecting stack and bay window on rear of cross-wing. Interior: Passage: the head beam of the screen retains mortice holes which indicate the position of three doorways. Hall: inserted stack and first floor supported on stop- chamfered beams; at the lower endare the remains of a spere truss, the lower parts of which are missing; central cruck truss with chamfered blades and collar, foiled raking struts to the upper part form a central quatrefoil flanked by trefoils; intermediate arch-braced collar-beam truss also with foiled raking struts above the collar, one curved windbrace adjoins; solar cross-wing of 4 bays with 2 arch-braced collar-beam trusses and a central tie-beam truss with raking struts. The house is partly surrounded by a moat. (RCHM, Vol II, 1932).
Listing NGR: SO6899541212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152501
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932)
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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