Upper Limebrook Farmhouse

WIGMORE CP LIMEBROOK SO 36 NE 5/74 Upper Limebrook Farmhouse 11.6.59 GV II*

Shown on OS map as Upper Limebrook Cottage. Farmhouse, now house. Probably C15, altered and extended in C16; restored late C20. Timber-framed with rendered infill on rubble base; stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses with dressed rubble stack to north side of ridge. Cruck hall-house of three framed bays aligned east/west with through- passage and inserted rubble chimney in central bay. A west wing was added in the C16 which has since been demolished. Two storeys (probably divided into two storeys in C16). Framin : full cruck truss with collar exposed at east end. Three panels from sill to wall-plate with additional row of panels on south side where roof pitch has been altered. C16 collar and tie-beam truss with struts at west end. Windows are all C20 leaded casements (with plank weatherings on ground floor). South front elevation: there are seven ground floor 2-light windows and eight first floor 2-light windows. Entrance to right of central bay has a partly-glazed C20 door. Present main entrance to rear of central bay. Interior: the two intermediate cruck trusses survive; the westernmost has an arch-braced collar and cusped V-strut. There are two rows of large square panels at the base of the easternmost one with short solid upper corner braces. The roof has two tiers of purlins and three tiers of cusped wind-braces. The outer bays are floored and there is a large fire- place in the west bay. There is also recorded to be some C17 panelling. RCHM, Herefs, III, p 210, item 21; BoE, p 233; Alcock, NW: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).

Listing NGR: SO3749566567