Massington Farmhouse
MASSINGTON FARMHOUSE, WORCESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224830
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Massington Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MASSINGTON FARMHOUSE, WORCESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224830
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Massington Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MASSINGTON FARMHOUSE, WORCESTER 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:
- MASSINGTON FARMHOUSE, WORCESTER 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 74009 39518
Details
LEDBURY RURAL CP WORCESTER ROAD SO 73 NW (off south side)
4/88 Massington Farmhouse
18.11.52
GV II
Farmhouse. C15, remodelled mid-C17 and c1810-20. Fragments of timber- framing but mostly red brick; hipped plain tiled roof and brick modillioned cornice; rubble and brick stacks, one at the rear has diagonal shafts. L-plan, rear wing at north east. Four windows plus one in the wing at the right: 16-pane glazing bar sash windows,. tripartite on the ground floor, and under cambered heads; string course over ground floor; later C19 canted bay at right. Off-centre panelled door; porch with octagonal, Tuscan columns. Interior: wide ovolo moulded beams to former cross-passage and large room at right (hall); stop-chamfered beams to left room. Rear (north east wing) retains portions of timber-framing; blocked 4-centre headed doorway and C19 door under a lintel decorated with a blank arcade of cinquefoils, moulded cornice above; on the first floor are portions of moulded wall posts and C15 arch-braces. (RCHM, Vol II, 1932).
Listing NGR: SO7400939518
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152514
- 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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