A Thousand Years of Building with Stone

Heritage buildings and their lost quarries

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A Thousand Years of Building with Stone is a 3.5 year project being run by Herefordshire & Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust and funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund. We are recording, cataloguing and untangling the history of stone use in heritage building across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

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Hidden History of Malvern College

Article by James Ferguson, a volunteer. After Great Malvern Priory, three of the most important stone buildings in Malvern are to be found in Malvern College: The first, the Main Building, is the work of the architect, Charles Hansom, in 1862; the second is the Chapel, by Arthur Blomfield in 1896; and the third, the […]
X-rays and Rainy Days

One of our big challenges on the Building Stones project is directly tracing a stone in a building to a quarry. Detailed fieldwork can be really effective for working out the range of rock types used and to give some idea of the areas these may have come from but, in general, for our project, […]

2 Fernbank Road

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Site Name2 Fernbank Road
Building Number2
StreetFernbank Road
Town or VillageRoss-on-Wye
CountyHerefordshire

Location

ClusterRoss-on-Wye
BNG CodeSO
Easting359801
Northing223113
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Building TypeDwelling house
General Description architectural glossaryTwo storey Victorian house built of local stone with buff coloured brick string courses and window surrounds. Buff coloured stone window sills. Large porch of local stone possibly a later addition
Main Building MaterialStone
Building Stone Description Local brownstones laid in regular courses with some brick
Date Created2014-06-19 00:00:00
Date Modified2017-03-27 19:45:05

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