Upper House

PRESTON-ON-WYE CP

PRESTON-ON-WYE

SO 34 SE 4/61

Upper House

II

House. C14, with some C17 alterations, clad in stone in C18, with some early C19 and late C20 alterations. Timber-frame clad in stone, mostly roughcast, with a slate roof. H-plan with hall aligned north/south. Screens passage to north end of hall, wing beyond rebuilt C17, spere truss in lower of two bays. Solar cross-wing contains remnants of C14 work. East front: the left-hand cross-wing is flush, the other projects. Cross- wings of two storeys with one window, to the left a 16-pane sash, to the right a C20 top-hung casement. Hall range of one storey with attic lit by two gabled dormers. Two 16-pane sashes on ground floor. Entrance to left of centre has a gabled C19 porch with half-glazed door. Interior not inspected. Reported to contain a base cruck in the centre of the hall with tenoned arcade plate. The upper roof is of simple construction with a collar above the cambered tie-beam. The spere truss is of aisled form with arch braces to the tie-beam. A relatively plain example of this type of hall. (Bismaris, M R: "A Base-Cruck Hall at Preston-on-Wye, Hereford- shire", Woolhope Club, Vol 41, pt III, 1975, pp 306 - 311).

Listing NGR: SO3844641664