Summer House
SUMMER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349943
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Summer House
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMER HOUSE
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- Date:
- 2007-07-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/16743/22
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349943
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Summer House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMER 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:
- SUMMER HOUSE
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 33261 52531
Details
ALMELEY CP ALMELEY WOOTTON SO 35 SW 1/24 Summer House 20.2.53 GV II
Farmhouse. Probably C16 with earlier origins, altered in early C20. Sandstone rubble and timber-frame with brick and plaster infill. Tile and Welsh slate roofs with sandstone and brick stacks. Rectangular plan aligned roughly north-east/south-west. Cellar, two storeys and attics. North elevation has 1:2:1 windows, late C19 casements of two lights arranged beneath three gables. Ground floor has small top vent mid-C20 to left-hand gable, a 3-light contemporary casement to centre gable, and an early C20 window of six segmentally headed lights to right-hand gable. Entry in ledged door to central gable. The two left gables have their tops decorated with oak concave sided lozenges each brace of which has a spur. The right-hand gable has matching patterns painted on brickwork. Attached to left side is a small lean-to. On the right-hand return of the right gable is a recessed lower range with its front masked by corrugated iron lean-to and a sandstone and brick stack to its right gable. South elevation has 1:3 early C20 timber-framed gables with roughcast infill. Glazed off-centre porch, also early C20, contains ledged door with strap hinges, possibly C17. Interior inaccessible at time of re-survey (November 1986). RCHM indicates that the Summer House incorporates a medieval hall and notes C17 panelling and a fireplace inter alia. (BOE, p 65; RCHM, Vol III, p 6 - 7).
Listing NGR: SO3326152531
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150393
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 6-7
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 65
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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