Tan House
TAN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349935
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Tan House
- Statutory Address:
- TAN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349935
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Tan House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAN HOUSE
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:
- TAN HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lyonshall
- National Grid Reference:
- SO3379855406
Details
The following building shall be included in the list:-
HEREFORD AND WORCESTER
LYONSHALL
LEOMINSTER
80 35 NW
4/97
Tan House
II
House. Circa C15, remodelled and extended in C17 and with C19 and C20 alterations.
Timber frame, front and side faced in stone rubble. Slate roofs with gabled ends.
Gable-end stacks with later brick shafts and truncated lateral stack to rear wing.
Plan: The original front range of 2 rooms and central cross-passage was originally
open to the roof and heated from an open hearth fire. In C17 the eaves were raised
and floors and gable end stacks were-inserted and a 1-room plan wing with a lateral
stack was added behind the right hand room of the front range. Partly refaced in
stone in C18 and/or C19 and outshuts built at left end and in rear angle in C29.
2 storeys. Not quite symmetrical 2-window south east front with C20 3-light
casements and C20 door with canopy to right of centre. The north west side facing
road has various 2-light casements, some with cambered arches. Large framing is
exposed on rear elevation of main range and in gable of wing to left; C20 casements
French casement and outshut in angle on side of rear wing next to projecting oven.
Lean-to outshut on south west end of main range.
Interior: Timber-framing exposed. Left hand room has chamfered framed ceiling;
right hand room has chamfered axial beam and rear wing, a deeply chamfered cross-
beam, both without stops, the rear wing with chamfered joists. All ground floor
rooms have stone fireplaces with timber lintels, that in rear wing with brick oven
to side.
Full cruck truss (like a spere-truss) on left side of passage with massive blades
and cambered collar halved and dovetail lap jointed to the principals, which are
smoke-blackened in the roof space. The early carpentery appears to be fairly
complete but the joinery is largely C20.
Listing NGR: SO3379855406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150358
- 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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