Old Cross Farmhouse
OLD CROSS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349559
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cross Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CROSS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349559
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cross Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CROSS FARMHOUSE
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:
- OLD CROSS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Willersley and Winforton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 29765 47013
Details
WINFORTON CP WINFORTON SO 24 NE 5/124 Old Cross Farmhouse 19/8/53 (formerly listed as Cross House) - II Farmhouse, now house. Circa 1400, altered and extended C17 with further mid- C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill on rubble base, some rubble walling and painted brick refacing and replacement walling; stone-tiled roofs laid in diminishing courses with a pair of rubble diagonal ridge stacks with rebuilt brick caps at west end of C17 part. Originally a medieval hall and cross-wing plan of which the cross-wing survives and is of two cruck-framed bays aligned north/south. The hall range on the east side was rebuilt in the C17 and has a large chimney back adjacent to the cross-wing and a continuous lean-to outshut at rear with a catslide roof. Single storey and attic. Framing: part of cruck trusses with collars survive at both ends of cross-wing. C17 range has three panels from sill to wall-plate, short straight upper corner braces and a collar and tie-beam truss with four struts and a V-strut above the collar at the east end. North front elevation: C17 range has a ground floor 2-light casement. Cross-wing gable end has a ground floor casement also of two lights and a pair of attic lights with a continuous plank weathering. Main entrance has a gabled timber porch with two-centred archway, inserted C20 door and glazing within the arched.head. Attic light at east gable end. Interior: the central cruck truss survives within the cross-wing. (RCHM, III, p 213, item 5; BoE, p 323; Alcock, NW: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).
Listing NGR: SO2976547013
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150679
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 323
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963)
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)
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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