Oakley House
OAKLEY HOUSE, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302295
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Oakley House
- Statutory Address:
- OAKLEY HOUSE, BROAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302295
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Oakley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKLEY HOUSE, BROAD STREET
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:
- OAKLEY HOUSE, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wigmore
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 41411 69023
Details
WIGMORE CP BROAD STREET (east side) SO 4069 - 4169 8/49 Oakley House 11.6.59 GV II House. Circa 1600 with mid-C19 alterations. Timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill on rubble base and slate roofs. Hall and cross- wing plan; hall part of three framed bays aligned north/south with rear external rubble chimney and rebuilt brick stack enclosed by wing of one framed bay. Intersecting cross-wing of probably two framed bays at north end. Two storeys. Framing: two rows of rectangular panels per storey with some long straight braces in lower corners. The first floor of the west front elevation is jettied on a moulded bressummer and moulded corbels. The cross-wing gable end has a deeper jetty supported on two timber posts (it was once underbuilt). The gable of the jetty has a collar and tie-beam truss with four struts and a concave V-strut above the collar. Rear wing has a collar and tie-beam truss with three struts, and a V-strut above the collar. West front elevation: the ground floor of the hall has two oriel windows, one with C19 casements and on its original moulded base with a central moulded corbel; the other with C19 multi-paned metal windows and the (possibly original) base boxed in and plastered is also a C20 casement of two lights. The south end bay has no ground floor and forms an archway for rear access. On the first floor are two 3-light and two single-light casements. The cross-wing has two ground floor single-light casements and a 3-light first floor casement, above which is a plank weathering attached to the tie-beam. The central doorway below has a half-glazed door and above it is a Sun Alliance fire insurance mark, No 339138. Interior has stop-chamfered main ceiling beams. The southernmost room is recorded to be lined with original panelling, carved and enriched and bearing the initials "KP". (RCHM, Herefs, Vol III, p 210, item 7). -
Listing NGR: SO4141469022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150228
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 210
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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