Western Lye
WESTERN LYE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301380
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Western Lye
- Statutory Address:
- WESTERN LYE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301380
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Western Lye
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTERN LYE
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:
- WESTERN LYE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aymestrey
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 39202 65665
Details
AYMESTREY CP UPPER LYE SO 36 NE
1/22 Western Lye (formerly listed as Upper Lye 11.6.59 Farmhouse)
GV II
Farmhouse. C15, remodelled late C17 and early C19, restored late C20. Timber-frame with painted brick and rendered infill on a coursed rubble plinth; hipped tile roof to C17 part, rest with a slate roof. L-plan. C15 range extending to south of three bays, central cruck trusses of open- hall against stack in south bay; C17 range to west. C17 portion has two lateral stacks of coursed rubble with brick dressings. East front: tall C17 range to right of two storeys with a 2-light casement to each floor, to left of two storeys with three 2-light casements. Entrance to right of centre has a C20 gabled and tiled porch. Framing: six square panels high to C17 part, three square panels high to C15. Interior: former centre of open hall is a cruck truss with collar and V-struts above, formerly with arch-braces below. The cruck truss between two northern bays was formerly a closed truss (RCHM, 3, p 14, no 28).
Listing NGR: SO3920265665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 14
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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