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Search the Public Notice PortalA couple’s plans to extend and reconfigure their large historic farmhouse have been defeated after a planning inspector threw out their appeals.
Mr & Mrs Corlett of Hill House (or Hillhouse) Farm, Bosbury near Ledbury, put forward a scheme last December to extend the grade II listed building, which dates from around 1600, and to seek listed building consent for the work.
This was originally to consist of a single-storey lean-to at the current northern external door to the kitchen, to house a new rear garden entrance through a boot room, and a new utility room, while a second extension to the west was to become a new dining room, with the kitchen moved to the current dining room.
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A new main entrance door was also proposed, along with a children’s room, snug and larder on the ground floor, and additional windows on the first floor, where a bedroom and bathroom were to be swapped.
According to Herefordshire Council’s principal building conservation officer, pre-application advice from the council “was not supportive” of the scheme, and the northern extension was then dropped.
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But the officer still raised “a very strong built heritage objection” to the remaining extension, due to its “completely disproportionate” scale and “alien” glazed link areas, as well as to the internal ground floor changes.
The council’s planning officer refused the scheme for this reason – which the Corletts then appealed against to the Government’s Planning Inspectorate.
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Now however, inspector Hannah Guest has sided with the council and dismissed their appeal, saying the proposals would “result in a moderate level of harm to the significance” of the “high-quality Herefordshire vernacular building”.
“I recognise that Hillhouse has evolved over time in response to the needs of successive generations,” she said – but considered the current owners’ desire “to adapt the building to better meet their domestic requirements does not, in itself, justify development”, given that to not do so would not threaten its continued use.
Boasting 3.5 acres of gardens and grounds, a separate cottage and converted byre, the five-bedroom property was last sold in May 2024 for £1.1 million.
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