Priory Building at the Old Rectory
PRIORY BUILDING AT THE OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077618
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Building at the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY BUILDING AT THE OLD RECTORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077618
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Building at the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY BUILDING AT THE OLD RECTORY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY BUILDING AT THE OLD RECTORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leominster
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 49889 59344
Details
SO 4959 LEOMINSTER
808-1/1/4 Priory Building at the Old
Priory
24.7.54
II
House, originally part of claustral range of Benedictine monastery. C13-C16 with C19 alterations. Sandstone rubble; Welsh slate roof; 2 large rubble buttress stacks with brick chimneys, to south front. 3 storeys; 4-window range: to left, single lancet; cross window; pointed heads with hood-moulds; to right, two C19 lights with upper casements; eight C19 lights. Two 2-light mullion windows, and part-blocked opening in stone arch; central C20 entrance; two C19 lights; buttresses. 2-storey wing to left; 3 lancet lights in stone reveals, and C19 2-light casement in altered opening; left returned side has various lights with blocked mullion window to gable; early C 19 brickwork to rear. South front: 2 moulded ashlar cross- windows with C19 glazing under cusped heads with hood-moulds, and simple timber hoods; three C20 casements. INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as containing a blocked Tudor fireplace in east end and a blocked C13 doorway in west wall, as well as an early window.
(RCHME: Herefordshire: 114-4 (2), PL.140). (Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, 1934, Page(s) 114-115.
Listing NGR: SO4988959344
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 114-115
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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