Lower Court
LOWER COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366262
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Court
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366262
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER COURT
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:
- LOWER COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kinsham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 36089 64427
Details
SO 36 SE KINSHAM CP -
5/12 Lower Court
19.8.53 - II
Farmhouse, now sub-divided into three tenements. C15 north-east wing extended to south during C17, mid-C19 refacing and further alterations. Timber-framed, of mainly square panelling but with heavy swept bracing to earlier wing; some wattle-and-daub infill remaining but mainly brick and C2O infill. Sandstone rubble plinth. Later additions and later re- facing to east side. Slate roofs; brick stacks. Early wing aligned east/ west with later wing extending to south at east, further additions to west side in angle of wings and to south gable end; axial stack to earlier wing and gable-end stack to south. Entrances to west and east of south wing and to north of earlier wing. Two storeys. West front: gable end of earlier wing to left with jettied upper floor supported on mutilated brackets and moulded ends to joists. Four-light C20 glazing bar casement window; similar slightly larger window to ground floor. Later addition in angle to right with 8-paned C20 casement on ground floor. C17 wing to right with one 6-paned casement window and one 2-light C20 casement window on ground floor. Ledged door with brick surround to left and 2- light casement window to right. Single-storey extension further to right. Interior of earlier wing retains two ogee-headed doorways; C17 wing retains a mutilated cross-beamed ceiling. (RCHM, Vol III, p 101).
Listing NGR: SO3608964427
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149151
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 101
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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