Tree-ring dated buildings © VAG 2021 INDEX OF TREE-RING DATED BUILDINGS IN ENGLAND COUNTY LIST approximately in chronological order, revised to VA51 (2020). © Vernacular Architecture Group 2021 These files may be copied for personal use, but should not be published or further distributed without written permission from the Vernacular Architecture Group. Always access these tables via the VAG website. Unauthorised copies released without prior consent on search engines may be out of date and unreliable. Since 2016 a very small number of construction date ranges from historical sources have been added. These entries are entirely in italics. Before using the index you are recommended to read or print the introduction and guidance, which includes a key to the abbreviations used on the tables HEREFORDSHIRE County Felling date Placename Address VA ref Description / keywords NGR range HE ref Other refs Heref 1115 + Pembridge St Mary’s Church – 11.34 Fl Re-used timbers: also see 1207-1216. SO 392581 belfry Heref 1167 -91 Adforton Wigmore Abbey 34.99 Sh 1st of 11 dated structures: East undercroft ceiling joists. Also see 1213 -43. SO 410713 Heref 1179 +0 Hereford Bishop’s Palace 20.46 HBMC Aisled hall: arcade posts, curved arcade braces (also 1500 after). SO 509397 (1) Heref 1195 c. Yarpole St Leonard’s Ch 1st 34.100 Not (2) Lattice of passing braces. Barefaced lap dovetails. Lowest rails morticed. Mortices SO 470649 tower (3) for spurs. Heref 1207-1216 Pembridge St Mary’s church bell 30.120 Sh All re-used timbers; redundant notched lap joints. Also see 1215. SO 392 581 tower Heref 1207-1223 Pembridge St Mary’s church 28.145 Sh Detached bell tower. Notched lap joints on the four main posts, but see 1668/9. SO 392581 tower AML 1/99. Heref 1205 -38 Abbey Dore Dore Abbey 30.120 Sh Re-used timbers. Also see 1575 -1615. SO 387304 (St Mary’s Church) AML 18/98 Heref 1213 -43 Adforton Wigmore Abbey 34.99 Sh 2nd of 11 dated structures: West undercroft ceiling joists. Also see 1311 -47. SO 410713 Heref 1267 Kington Hergest Court 28.159 Oxf (4) In-situ rafter in wing dated 1220 + but re-used timbers of 1267. Also see 1307 etc. SO 281554 Heref 1253 -88 Hereford ‘Cathedral Barn’, 28.143 Sh Canon’s residence? Aisled. Also see 1491/2 SO 511399 Cathedral Close AML 17/96 (5) Heref 1267 -97 Kington St Mary’s Church 38.99 MB Base of spire. Also see 1415 -39. SO 291567 Heref 1307 Kington Hergest Court 28.159 Oxf Undercroft ceiling. No roof details. Also see 1267, 1485 - 1515. SO 281554 Heref 1311 -47 Adforton Wigmore Abbey 34.99 Sh 3rd of 11 structures dated: East undercroft, longitudinal structure. Also see 1316 - SO 410713 51 Heref 1316 -51 Adforton Wigmore Abbey 34.99 Sh Fourth of 11 structures dated: West undercroft, longitudinal structure. Also see SO 410713 1482. Heref 1327-71 Hereford 20 Church Street 28.144 Sh Canon’s house. ‘1st-floor hall’. Crown posts. SO 510399 AML 17/96 Heref 1370 -1400 Peterchurch Wellbrook Manor 51.109 (6) Originally timber-framed, now stone. Open hall has 1 base cruck truss with short SO 350384 i arch-braces to cranked tiebeam. Spere- and closed dais trusses both of aisled form. Arcade plates. Cusped braces. Solar with overlapping date range of 1386 - 1416 i may be contemporary. Heref 1405 Foy Anchor and Can 48.87 2 bay open hall with 2 smoke-blackened cruck trusses, F2 type apexes. Stone SO610286 Cottage HRAC/15/16 gable, walls have large panels with mid-rails, (For cruck-framed added bay see 1534d. For inserted floor and wall frame see 1568-90). Heref 1414 Whitbourne Church of St John the 41.96 Notm Belfry. This timber with others dated to 1471-96 and later. SO 725569 Baptist RDR 100/2009 Tree-ring dated buildings © VAG 2021 Heref 1413-41 & Bringsty Lower Brockhampton 42.93 DCL Base cruck open hall? Aisled spere truss with arch-braced tiebeam, diagonal struts SO 687560 1398-1434 (NT) to principals. 2 tiers of side purlins, curved and cusped wind-braces. Some elements of wing may be contemporary. Heref 1424 Pembridge Fig Tree Hse/ 34.102 IT (7) Two-bay open hall and later wing. Cruck blades with high quality decorative SO 392582 Grosmont Hse, cusping. East St Heref 1425 Pembridge West End Farm, West 34.104 IT (8) Cruck-framed hall with cross-passage and in-line east end, and box-framed two- SO 387581 St bay wing to west with cusped wind braces. Cruck blades in hall have decorative cusping – same team of carpenters as Fig Tree / Grosmont? (1424 qv) Heref 1415 -39 Kington St Mary’s Church 38.99 MB Beams supporting bellframe. For spire see 1267 -97. SO 291567 Heref 1434 Eardisley 1-4 Church Road 37.109 IT Wing: 3 bays, 2 storeys. Jettied gable. Single tier of threaded purlins, wind braces. SO 312493 For hall range see 1513. Heref 1428 -42 Wigmore Chapel Farmhouse 49.124 4 small square panel wall frames. 4-bay hall: jowled posts, cusped arch-braces up SO 394684 HRCF/32/16 to moulded tiebeams, collars, intermediate arch-braced collar trusses. 3 tiers of moulded purlins, cusped curved wind-braces. Ornate wall plates with cresting. For inserted floor and chimney see 1559 -89). Heref 1436 Kington Penrhos Court 30.121 Sh Cruck-framed hall in complex multi-phase structure. Also see 1446-1489, 1540- SO 318562 1543, 1571-1606. Heref 1441 Weobley Marlbrook House, 38.117 DCL 2-bay 2-storey wing with jettied front. (Service wing to earlier (lost) hall range?) SO 402515 Back Lane Cusped braces under front tiebeam, cusped wind braces. Hall range 1494 (qv). Heref 1442 Eardisley The Holme, 37.110 IT 2-bay box-framed hall range: cross passage plan. Arch-braced trusses, but that SO 310495 Church Rd over centre of hall has cranked tiebeam: [crown strut?] from tiebeam to collar: 2 tiers of threaded purlins with pairs of curved wind braces in middle row. Wing with 1st-floor great chamber originally jettied on 2 elevations: decorated bargeboards. Heref 1444 Pembridge The Gatehouse, East 34.102 IT (9) Two-bay hall. Cruck truss with arch-braced collar, cusped braces. Probably SO 391581 St originally with a jettied upper end wing. Heref 1431 -65 Weobley Unicorn House, High 38.117 DCL Box framed, Wealden type, but 2 ‘dwellings’, or one with a commercial function? 2 SO 403515 Street recessed halls, each with its own cross-passage. Arch-braced intermediate roof trusses with cusps above the collars and cusped wind braces. Believed to be same carpenters as 4 Portland St and Tudor Cottage in Broad St. Heref 1447/8 Wigmore Upper Limebrook 35.86 Sh 3-bay hall house with ‘integral’ 2-bay upper end wing (demolished). Arch-braced SO 375666 Farm cruck, with cusped and pierced wind braces. ‘Integral’ 2-bay box-frame wing. Heref 1446-54 Pembridge Brick House West St 34.103 IT (10) Two-bay cruck open hall with undated two-bay box-framed, jettied wing. Cusped SO 387581 blades, decorative cusping. Heref 1451 Pembridge Swan House, 34.103 IT (11) 4 bay box-framed open hall. Louvre. ‘Arcading above the tiebeam’, collar. 3 tiers of SO 389581 West St double-cusped & pierced wind braces: Moulded & crenellated cornice. Double- jettied 3-storey wing. Heref 1455 + Adforton Wigmore Abbey 34.99 Sh 5th of 11 dated structures. Rafters over Abbot’s hall. SO 410713 Heref 1437-73 Eardisley The Forge 37.109 IT 1 service bay, 2-bay hall: solar end replaced. Cross-passage. 3-bay cruck hall SO 310495 range. Open cruck truss has arch-braced collar. Passing wind braces lapped into backs of 3 tiers of purlins. Heref 1441 -65 Kingswood Pound Farmhouse 48.88 4-bay hall-house with 5 cruck trusses. Arch-braced collars, raking struts, cusping. 2 SO 289541 HRPF/37/16 tiers of trenched side purlins, type B apexes. Inserted chimney 1563 d. [This entry succeeds VA 33.80] Heref 1440-1476 King’s Pyon Black Hall Barn 31.115 UoW (Destroyed – fire) Cruck collar, spur SO 438504 AML 53/99 Heref 1459 Whitbourne Kennets 39.132 IT 2 bays, 2 storeys, probably upper end wing of lost house. Tiebeam & collar, queen SO 724570 posts [i.e. queen struts?]. Heref 1445-81 Pembridge Old Wheelwrights, 34.103 IT (12) 2-bay box-framed open hall with in-line end bays. Arch-braced [collar?] truss SO 392581 East St across hall. Collar, wind braces. Tree-ring dated buildings © VAG 2021 Heref 1450 -80 Holme Lacy The Thatch, Bridge 49.124 2 bays at E end have cruck truss with type B apex, evidence of smoke louvre. (For SO 552355 Road HRTH/11/17 wall frame see 1550 /51) Heref 1446-1489 Kington Penrhos Court 30.121 Sh Partition wall (?) within wing to earlier hall (1436 qv) in complex multi-phase SO 318562 structure. Also see 1540-1543, 1571-1606. Heref 1467 /68 Weobley The Throne, Hereford 43.79 MB Eastern 2 bays with clasped purlin roof in 4-bay wing of 2 phases. Also see 1477- SO 404516 Rd 80, 1560 and 1572-5. Heref 1457 -87 Michaelchurch Pikes Farm 38.121 Oxf Also 1462 -92. Single storey stone 3-bay hall house / longhouse with cross SO 290381 Escley passage. This date and 1462 -92 obtained from E end door frames. For hall house 2nd phase see 1546 c. Also see 1561 and 1590 /91. Heref 1460-83 Pembridge The Greyhound, East 34.102 IT (13) 2-storey box-framed, jettied wing: ‘Queen posts’ [i.e.