Byfords Farmhouse
BYFORDS FARMHOUSE, NEWENT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304397
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Byfords Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BYFORDS FARMHOUSE, NEWENT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304397
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Byfords Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BYFORDS FARMHOUSE, NEWENT LANE
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:
- BYFORDS FARMHOUSE, NEWENT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Taynton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 72263 21296
Details
SO 72 SW TAYNTON NEWENT LANE (east side)
7/248 Byfords Farmhouse
2.10.54 II
Farmhouse; early C17. Brick-nogged timber framing, on part brick, part random-rubble stone plinth; plain render to entrance facade, reported to be on timber-framing; Sussex-bond brickwork to extension: slate roof. Three bays wide, part 2 rooms deep, originally L-plan, enlarged at one end: 2 storeys with attics. Entrance facade: boarded door under gabled porch, up 4 stone steps: side walls brick, open timber front. Either side a 3- light casement window, left below cambered brick head to cellar opening. Late C20 extension on left. First floor 3-light casement on right, 4-light on left. Gable chimney left end of original house. Right return timber-framed, 2-panel high per floor: 4- pane wide ground floor, 2-light casement first, with straight braces tie beam to wallposts. Two collars to gable; late C20 two- light casement. Rear, high plinth; left large stone chimney projection, 2-light casement to left on ground floor: on right stone extended up to projecting wing. Slight batter to plinth to wing: boarded door to cellar on right. Ground floor close- studded framing, 2 panels high: 2-light casement window on left, single pane below to cellar stairs: 2-light casement on right. Brick extension on right, 2-light casement with cambered brick head. First floor: 2-panel high framing to left of chimney: tall brick stack above eaves level. Framing to wing 3-panel high: 2- light casement on right. Two collars to gable over, single-pane late C20 window. To right brick extension, 2-light casement as ground floor, gable on right return. Interior: heavy chamfer to beams on ground floor front, with exposed joists in ceiling on left of entrance. Entrance originally direct to left room: passage formed later. Spiral stair in right of rear wing: cellar below left half of house only, with 4 stop-chamfered posts. Two-bay front roof: 2 pairs purlins, straight windbraces to lower pair from wallplate, square ridge.
Listing NGR: SO7226321296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 125784
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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