Shirley Farmhouse

SHIRLEY FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349735
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:
Shirley Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
SHIRLEY FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349735
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:
Shirley Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
SHIRLEY 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SHIRLEY FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Aymestrey
National Grid Reference:
SO 38394 65284

Details

AYMESTREY CP - SO 36 NE

1/2 Shirley Farmhouse

11.6.59

- II

Farmhouse. Late C15 and C17, extended early C19. Timber-frame with rendered infill, partly rendered and partly clad in brick on a coursed rubble plinth, with tiled roof. T-plan, C15 cross-wing of two framed bays aligned north/south with central stack. Other range C15, extended C19, terminated at east end by a two-bay cider house placed at right- angles. West front: of two storeys, the first floor jettied with curved brackets. The bracket at south-west corner placed diagonally for dragon beam, but south gable-end jetty underbuilt in brick. South front: 1 + 2 3-light casements. The entrance in angle between ranges has a lean-to C20 wooden porch. Framing: close-studding exposed in cross-wing. Cider house: three square panels high. Interior: exposed chamfered and stopped ceiling beams. Cider house retains cider mill and press. (RCHM 3, p 14, no 29).

Listing NGR: SO3839465284

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Legacy System number:
149405
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 14

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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