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, […]

Castle House

Identifying Numbers

Strategic Stone Study info8150

Building

Site NameCastle House
Town or VillageClifford
CountyHerefordshire

Location

ParishClifford
BNG CodeSO
Easting324457
Northing245546
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Details

Building TypeDwelling house
General Description architectural glossarySymmetrical probably C18 farmhouse.
Construction Commenced18th Century
Construction Completed18th Century
Main Building MaterialStone
Building Stone Description Old Red Sandstone with plain tile (ceramic) roof.
Date Created2014-09-05 00:00:00
Date Modified2016-03-18 12:50:50

Stones

Local Name	Old Red Sandstone (Lower Old Red Sandstone)
Geological Age	Lower Devonian
Lithology	Sandstone
Occurrence	Throughout
Acquired Stone From	-
Proportion Stone	100%
Block Max Size	-
Block Min Size	-
Block Avg Size	-
Block Shape	-
Masonry Style	-
Weathering Condition	-
Weathered Colour	-
Description	-
Sedimentary Features	-
Grain Size	-
Grain Sorting	-
Fossils	-
Mineralogy	-
Acid Reaction	-

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References

Company/Govt. Reports

Author/s	Publication Year	Title	Publisher	URL	Notes
British Geological Survey	2012	Strategic Stone Survey Herefordshire: Buildings	British Geological Survey/English Heritage	link	ID No. 8150