Lower Court
LOWER COURT, A 438
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348895
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Court
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER COURT, A 438
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348895
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER COURT, A 438
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:
- LOWER COURT, A 438
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clifford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 24536 45584
Details
SO 24 NW CLIFFORD CP A 438 (east side)
1/68 Lower Court
GV II*
Farmhouse. C14 with C18, mid-C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Coursed rubble partially encasing remnants of timber-frame, hipped tile roof. C14 house remains as T-plan, probable hall range of 4 bays aligned north-east/south-west, cross-wing at south-west end of 3 bays; early C18 range of one room width added to north-west of hall range; site of north- east cross-wing occupied by gabled range probably early C18, former cow- houses on ground floor. Main stack on former external north-west wall of hall. Garden front: two storeys, hipped roof with central gable, irregular fenestration, 5 windows to main part: 2 to left flat stone heads over timber cross casements; central 3-light casement under gable with brick segmental head, single light casement and timber cross casement to right, both under segmental heads. Ground floor: to left C20 square bay window and door under lean-to canopy, to right C20 square bay window, to extreme right 2-light casement under segmental head; to left of main part set-back gabled cross-wing with sliding doors to garage, to right of which main entry to house, separated from rest of front by garden wall (not included). To left of door a stone bearing graffiti: "I L G ", perhaps reset. 1754 17 North-east elevation shows side of cross-wing with lofts over former cow- houses; upper floor timber-framed, 2 square panels high with brick infill, 3 loft entries; ground floor of rubble with 3 entrances. Rear elevation contains some exposed large square framing and a gable truss with queen struts to collar. Interior: roof of hall range visible in roof space has intermediate trusses with arch braces to collars, V-struts above, the centre above the V a quatrefoil, the other areas trefoils. Two purlins moulded, two levels of cusped wind braces. End trusses have collars and queen struts, retaining wattle-and-daub infill. Cross-wing has simpler roof, with one set of cusped wind braces, intermediate trusses not visible. First floor of cross-wing extant. Perhaps late C14/early C15, as opposed to mid-C14 hall. In the south-west wall of a barn about 20 metres south-east of the house is set a stone carved in low relief with an interlace pattern, possibly C10 or Cll (not included). (RCHM 1, p 41 (no 16), plate 9).
Listing NGR: SO2453145584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153689
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 41
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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