The Lea Farmhouse
THE LEA FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301187
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Lea Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE LEA FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11201/27
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301187
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Lea Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LEA 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:
- THE LEA FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kimbolton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 53825 62244
Details
KIMBOLTON CP SO 56 SW 7/14 The Lea Farmhouse 11.6.59 II
Farmhouse. C16 or C17 with late C19 alterations. Sandstone rubble refacing of timber-framed house with Welsh slate roof with brick shafts to stacks. Rectangular plan with gable-end stack with central star plan shaft flanked by rebuilt diagonal shafts and axial stack. Entrance to south- west front. Two storeys with attics. South-west front: lean-to kitchen addition with catslide roof extends forward to left with 2-light ovolo moulded mullioned window to right-hand return, main house to right with 5-light C19 casement window to left and similar 2-light window to right. Similar 5-light window with transom lights to left and 3-light window to right of projecting C19 porch with part glazed door (this obscures an earlier formerly external battened and studded door). To the rear of the house the ovolo moulded mullioned windows survive; one 3-light and one 4- light cross-mullioned window to left and partly blocked 3-light window and further 3-light window at mezzanine level to right. Ground floor: one 5- light window, one 4-light window and one 3-light window to left of square headed doorway with pierced ledged door, 2-light casement windows to later addition to right. Interior reveals chamfered ceiling beams and a section of C17 panelling in main room. (RCHM, Vol 3, p 78).
Listing NGR: SO5382562244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150504
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 78
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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