The Cruck House
THE CRUCK HOUSE, WHITNEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301581
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Cruck House
- Statutory Address:
- THE CRUCK HOUSE, WHITNEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301581
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Cruck House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CRUCK HOUSE, WHITNEY ROAD
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 CRUCK HOUSE, WHITNEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eardisley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO3097849636
Details
EARDISLEY CP
WHITNEY ROAD (south side)
SO 3049 - 3149
7/89
16.10.67
The Cruck House
(formerly listed as
Broadlands)
II
House. Probably C14, altered mid-C19 and mid-C20. Timber-framed with
painted brick and rubble infill on painted rubble base and with some painted
rubble walling; stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses and rubble stack
at east end with rubble and brick shafts. Cruck hall house of two framed bays
aligned east/west with large east end chimney, Single storey and attic with
dormer. Framing: full cruck truss with collar exposed at east gable end.
Wall-framing has mainly two panels from sill to wall-plate. North front
elevation: there is a C19 oriel window on straight brackets with a hipped
roof and casements windows and also a 2-light C19 casement with a plank
weathering on the ground floor. Above is a gabled dormer with a 2-light casement
Main entrance to rear of chimney at east end and has a lean-to canopy
on straight brackets and a C20 door. Attic light at west end. C20 single-
storey flat-roofed extension at rear. Interior retains its central cruck
truss. (RCHM, III, p 53, item 9; Alcock, NW: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).
Listing NGR: SO3097849636
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150644
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 53
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)
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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