Lower House
LOWER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249201
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249201
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER HOUSE
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 HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aylton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 65531 35921
Details
SO 63 NE AYLTON 5/1000 Lower House II House. C17. Timber framed on stone rubble plinth partly with later red brick nogging and partly clad in corrugated iron sheets. Gabled-ended plain tile roof partly clad in corrugated iron sheets. Sandstone rubble lateral sta~k with brick shaft. PLAN: Rectangular l-room plan with lateral fireplace on side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. There is now a doorway at either end. Exposed scroll framing, some of the panels now open, some brick nogged and parts of the elevations faced in corrugated iron sheets. Diagonal corner braces and struts in the gables. Large sandstone lateral stack projecting on north east side and large C20 corrugated iron sheet outbuilding attached to south west side. INTERIOR: First and second floors supported on 2 x 3 intersecting cross-beams with straight cut stops; joists removed from first floor but some remain on second floor. Jowled posts supporting wall-plates and second floor tie-beams. 2-bay queen- post roof with high collars; queen-posts of centre truss missing; diagonal ridgepiece and rafters complete. C19 brick fireplaces with evidence of an oven and kiln. NOTE: Said to have been part of a small Quaker settlement. SOURCE: J.W.Tonkin; survey report, 1989.
Listing NGR: SO6553135921
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431092
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tonkin, J W, Report of Lower House Aylton, (1989)
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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