Fernhall Farmhouse and Adjoining Cowhouse
FERNHALL FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COWHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349575
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fernhall Farmhouse and Adjoining Cowhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FERNHALL FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COWHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349575
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fernhall Farmhouse and Adjoining Cowhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FERNHALL FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COWHOUSE
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:
- FERNHALL FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COWHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brilley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 27785 51476
Details
BRILLEY CP - SO 25 SE 2/4 Fernhall Farmhouse and adjoining cowhouse GV II Farmhouse, once divided into three tenements, and adjoining cowhouse. Late C14/early C15, altered probably C17, late C18, mid-C19 and restored late C20. Timber-framed with painted brick infill on rubble base, painted brick and rubble replacement walling and refacing with stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses and large rubble ridge stack (part rebuilt in brick); also brick stack at north-east end. Cruck hall-house of two framed bays aligned north-east/south-west with cross-wings originally at both ends. South-west wing has an external rubble chimney adjoining its south elevation. The main roof has now been continued over the north-east cross-wing and the hall had a large central chimney and ceiling inserted in C17. Single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: three panels from sill to wall-plate (only upper row of panels visible to front); cross-wing has collar and tie-beam trusses with struts with V-struts above the collar (swept V-strut to front). North-west front elevation: main range has a 3-light, a 2-light and a single- light ground floor leaded casement, three raking-top dormers with 2-light latticed casements and three doors, two of them being partly glazed. The cross-wing gable end has a ground floor 3-light casement, a 4-light attic window with latticed casements and a plank weathering and a partly-glazed door with flanking square leaded lights. There is a lean-to outshut with a catslide roof to the rear north-east end. Interior: hall is recorded to retain its central cruck truss which has a collar and three cusped openings above the collar; there were also cusped braces below the collar. The end trusses are also said to survive and there is a large fireplace in the south- west bay. Cowhouse adjoins north-east end. C17. Timber-framed and weather-. boarded with stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses. Three framed bays. Single storey. There are two doors and a large opening in the north-west elevation. Interior: wall-framing has two panels from sill to wall-plate and short straight braces across the lower corners. The roof has a collar and tie- beam truss with three struts and a V-strut above the collar at the west end, and two intermediate and a south-west end king-post truss; two tiers of trenched purlins. (RCHM, III, p 24, item 4; BoE, p 86: Alcock, N W: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).
Listing NGR: SO2778551476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150557
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 24
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 86
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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