Lower Nicholson Farmhouse
LOWER NICHOLSON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268330
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Nicholson Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER NICHOLSON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268330
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Nicholson Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER NICHOLSON 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 NICHOLSON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatfield and Newhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 58036 58405
Details
HATFIELD
SO 55 NE Lower Nicholson Farmhouse
1567-0/10/10003
II
Farmhouse. C17 or earlier with later alterations and additions. Timber-framed with plastered
infilling and with stone rubble plinth; partly stone rubble. Stone tile roof with gabled ends. Stone gable-end stacks with later brick shafts. PLAN: 3-room plan, parlour on left [west] with a gable-end stack, an unheated centre room with direct entry from doorway at front and lower end on right [east] divided axially. The centre room might have been an open hall and the floor inserted in the C17. The lower range set back on the right end was probably an outbuilding converted to domestic use. A small C19 brick outshut on the left end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetricall main range with 3-window front with 2 and 3-light casements and plank door to left of centre. 1-storey and attic timber-framed extension on right with stone rubble ground floor and end gable, C20 dormer window and C20 casements. On the left end there is a red brick outshut with a plank door. At the rear, one casement on first floor and another on ground floor by a doorway on right with a plank door; the left end of rear wall has been rebuilt in painted stone rubble; projecting range on left, stone ground floor and timber-framed above. INTERIOR: Left [west] room has intersecting chamfered ceiling beams, exposed wall-framing and small C 19 brick fireplace in gable end with oven to side. Centre room has two chamfered axial beams and winder stair at the back. Right-hand [east] end has axial timber-framed partition and the front room has chamfered intersecting beams, the axial beam with carved stops. Range to right [east] has chamfered cross-beam with run-out stops. NOTE: It is reputed that Lower Nicholson Farmhouse was owned [but not lived in] by John Dyer [1699-1757], the Welsh poet, itinerant artist and clergyman, author of the topographical poem 'Grongar Hill' [1726], 'Ruins of Rome' [1740] and 'The Fleece' [1757].
Listing NGR: SO5803658405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461941
- 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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