Primrose Cottage
Primrose Cottage, Isle of Rhea, Bodenham, HR1 3LE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301734
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Primrose Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Primrose Cottage, Isle of Rhea, Bodenham, HR1 3LE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301734
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Sept-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Primrose Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Primrose Cottage, Isle of Rhea, Bodenham, HR1 3LE
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:
- Primrose Cottage, Isle of Rhea, Bodenham, HR1 3LE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bodenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 53917 51984
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 April 2021 to update the name and the address and to reformat the text to current standards
SO 55 SW
5/42
BODENHAM
ISLE OF RHEA
Primrose Cottage
(Formerly listed as Isle of Rhea Cottage)
II
House. Mid C17 with mid C19 and mid C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill on rubble base and corrugated asbestos roof. Two framed bays aligned north-west/south-east with large external rubble chimney and brick stack at north-west end. Single storey and attic with half-dormers.
Framing: three panels from sill to wall-plate and some short straight braces across lower outer corners of upper outer panels; collar and tie-beam trusses, south-east end truss has three struts beneath collar and V-strut in apex.
South-west front elevation: windows are C20 casements. There is a three-light ground floor window, a square stairlight and a raking-top half~dormer with a two-light window. Main entrance to right of centre has a C20 lean-to glazed timber porch and glazed door within. Attic lights in gable ends. Continuous rubble outshut at rear which has an external rubble chimney with a brick stack and bread oven. (This is probably a C19 kitchen addition). Also glazed C20 addition at north-west end.
Listing NGR: SO5391751984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 16
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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