Rock Cottage
ROCK COTTAGE, ROCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296795
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK COTTAGE, ROCK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296795
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCK COTTAGE, ROCK
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:
- ROCK COTTAGE, ROCK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Richards Castle (Hereford)
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 48812 70040
Details
RICHARD'S CASTLE CP ROCK SO 47 SE 1/129 Rock Cottage 11.6.59 - II
House. Early C17, restored late C19 and late C20. Timber-frame with painted brick infill on coursed rubble plinth and machine tile roof. Two framed bays aligned north/south with external gable-end stack to south. Street (north) front of two storeys, with jettied first floor and tie-beam. A 2-light casement on each floor inserted in position of pro- jecting windows, the sills of which survive on scroll brackets. The chamfered jetty bressummer is on scroll brackets. Gable end has C19 barge- boards. Entrance in west wall. Framing: four square panels high, the north gable-end truss has three struts to the collar, V-struts in the apex and trenched purlins. (RCHM, 3, p 174, no 8).
Listing NGR: SO4881270040
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150152
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 174
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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