Playford
Playford, Much Marcle Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 2NN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349135
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Playford
- Statutory Address:
- Playford, Much Marcle Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 2NN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349135
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Playford
- Statutory Address 1:
- Playford, Much Marcle Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 2NN
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:
- Playford, Much Marcle Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 2NN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Much Marcle
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 66764 32457
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 February 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SO 63 SE
8/71
MUCH MARCLE CP
Playford
(Formerly listed as Playwood)
II
Cottage. Probably late C18 to early C19. Timber-frame with brick and plaster infill, stack at junction of two ranges and thatched roofs. L-plan consisting of two two-bay ranges, one aligned north-west/south-east facing the road, and the other returning from the north-west end with stone rear external stack in the angle.
South-west elevation (to road): two-storey gable front to left has two late C19 casements on the ground floor, angle struts to beam corresponding with first-floor level and an inclined tie-beam linking the asymmetrical eaves; right hand part has one storey and attic with a wrought iron mid-C19 casement beneath a segmentally-headed casement in a thatched eyebrow and a mid-C20 door immediately to the right under a thatched canopy; roof half-hipped to right hand side.
south-east elevation: early C19 glazing-bar sash to first floor of left two-storey range above a canted late C19 bay window with six panes to each facet; the gable front to the right has a c1900 casement under the half-hipped apex and another late C19 canted bay window to the ground floor. Lean-to early C20 extension with hipped tiled roof to rear envelopes the rear stack beneath exposed rear gables of the two ranges. Frame is of thin uneven scantling, three panels high in the projecting range and two in the other range.
A most unusually planned and detailed cottage which retains its fenestration, largely unaltered in this century, and which has the traits of a prestigious timber-framed farmhouse but executed in miniature and enhanced by thatched roofs.
Listing NGR: SO6676432457
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152736
- 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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