Marlbrook Cottages
MARLBROOK COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349889
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Marlbrook Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- MARLBROOK COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349889
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Marlbrook Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARLBROOK COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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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:
- MARLBROOK COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leinthall Starkes
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 43682 69778
Details
LEINTHALL STARKES CP LEINTHALL STARKES SO 46 NW 6/38 Nos 1 & 2 Marlbrook Cottages 11.6.59 II House divided into two dwellings. cl400 with C17 and C19 alterations and additions; restored late C20. Timber-framed with rendered infill on rubble base, partly roughcast with rubble additions, machine tiled roofs and brick stack to rear of main ridge and at east end. Cruck hall house of two (possibly once three) 15 foot square bays aligned east/west; easternmost bay rebuilt or added in Cl7 and also intersecting cross-wing of two framed bays at east end. Single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: complete cruck truss survives at west end. (There are recorded to be two more surviving inside). Main elevations were refaced in C17 and have three rows of square panels. Cross-wing framing not visible externally. South front elevation: windows are mainly C20 casements. Original range has a 3-light window, a 4-light window with a cambered head and a single-light window on the ground floor. Above are three gabled dormers, two with 2-light windows and one with a 3-light window. There are two ledged and battened doors with lean-to porches on straight brackets. The cross-wing gable end has a 3-light ground floor window with a cambered head and also a 3-light attic window. There is a small ledged and battened door at the west end. A rubble lean-to addition adjoins the rear of the main range. There is also a rubble wing on the east side with two shuttered windows and a pair of doors in its south elevation. Interior: only partly inspected, and the two other recorded cruck trusses were not visible. There are some stop-chamfered C17 main ceiling beams and two winder staircases. (RCHM, Herefs III, p 105; BoE, p 222; Alcock, N W: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).
Listing NGR: SO4368269778
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150217
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 105
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 222
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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