Lower House Farmhouse
LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250963
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250963
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Jul-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER HOUSE 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:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hampton Bishop
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 53548 40397
Details
The following building shall be added:
HAMPTON BISHOP TUPSLEY SO 54 SW 765-0/1/10004 Lower House Farmhouse 20/10/52 II Farmhouse. Circa late C16; altered circa mid C19. Timber-framed, mostly roughcast, on stone rubble plinth. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends with shaped bargeboards. Stone axial and lateral stacks with red brick shafts. PLAN: T-shaped on plan. Comprises a main W-E range with a central lobby entrance against an axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces and a cross-wing at the left [west] end with a large room at the front heated from a lateral stack at the side and a smaller room at the back with a winder staircase in the corner. The bay to the right [east] of the axial stack in the main range was rebuilt in the C19. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 1:3 window south front; gabled cross-wing on left with jettied first floor with ball-shaped pendants at ends. C19 2,3 and 4-light casements with transoms, glazing bars and some leaded panes. Doorway to right of centre with ledged door and open porch with gabled canopy. At rear timber-frame exposed; gabled cross-wing on right with trellis-framing in the gable. Large stone lateral stack on west side. INTERIOR: Exposed wall-framing. Chamfered and ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with stops and chamfered wall-posts with shaped jowls. RCHME records battened door with ornamental strap hinges, another door made from late C16 or early C17 panelling, winder staircase ["probably ancient"] and queen-post roof over the west wing. SOURCE: RCHME, page 87.
Listing NGR: SO5354840397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433526
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 87
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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