Lower Middlewood
LOWER MIDDLEWOOD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296640
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Middlewood
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER MIDDLEWOOD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296640
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Middlewood
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER MIDDLEWOOD
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 MIDDLEWOOD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clifford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 28747 44612
Details
SO 24 SE CLIFFORD CP MIDDLEWOOD
5/95 Lower Middlewood
II
House. Late C16 with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-frame, with brick infill, partially rendered, and rubble, slate roof. L-plan, east/west range gabled, north/south range attached. East/west range of 3 rooms, stack between 2 west rooms; 2 rooms to north/south range with intervening stack. Two storeys, and one storey with attic. East front: gabled wing to left, gable rendered, with C19 brickwork below; irregular fenestration, a 2-light C20 casement to first floor, 2, C20 casements below; to right 2, C20 gabled dormers on first floor; ground floor: to left wooden cross mullioned window with square stone label, to right a small casement. The west gable is of rubble, and has a central stack corbelled out from wall for a first floor fireplace. Entrance in north gable. Framing: externally fragmentary, visible in east/west range, the two eastern rooms form 2 bays, with framing visible in south wall, including straight angle braces. The east gable had intersecting raking struts (visible inside) producing a decorative effect. Interior: some stop chamfered ceiling beams. Both main stacks retain timber lintels. In the south room of the north/ south range there is a rectangular enclosure against the wall of stud-and- plank, perhaps a former buttery or stair enclosure. (RCHM 1, p 41, no 11).
Listing NGR: SO2874744612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153716
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 41
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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