Castle Frome
CASTLE FROME
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349939
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Frome
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE FROME
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349939
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Frome
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE FROME
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:
- CASTLE FROME
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Almeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 33244 51288
Details
ALMELEY CP - SO 35 SW 1/7 Castle Frome 20.2.53 GV II
Farmhouse. Possibly C14 or C15 with C17 and later alterations. Sandstone rubble plinth, timber-frame with brick infill, weatherboards and roughcast sandstone rubble gable. Sandstone slate and corrugated iron roof. Sandstone rubble stacks with brick shafts. L-plan with main range aligned east/west and wing projecting northwards at west end. One storey and attic. South elevation has exposed timber-framed gable front to left. Stone stack with brick shaft partly masks scissor struts in gable top. To the left of the stack are two square early C20 windows and to the right one 2-light late C20 casement. To the right of the gable is ledged door into main range which has roof half-hipped to the right. West elevation is roughcast and has two gabled dormers. North elevation has two timber-framed gables in projecting front to right. Frame is south side of projecting wing has three panels of thin scant- ling to first floor. Interior of eastern weatherboarded part of main range is a barn, formerly perhaps a hall, with three pairs of cruck blades, all with collars and spurs and one with arch-braces to its collar. (RCHM, Vol III, p 8).
Listing NGR: SO3324451288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150376
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 8
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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