The Hermitage
THE HERMITAGE, UPPER KEMERTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081613
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1980
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage
- Statutory Address:
- THE HERMITAGE, UPPER KEMERTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081613
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1980
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HERMITAGE, UPPER KEMERTON
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:
- THE HERMITAGE, UPPER KEMERTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kemerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94917 37774
Details
KEMERTON CP UPPER KEMERTON SO 9437 - 9537 9/89 21/122 The Hermitage 21-4-80 - II
Shown on OS Map as The Cottage/The Hermitage. Row of three or four houses, now one dwelling. Probably late C17, extended c1800 with late C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble and thatched roof, half-hipped at west end, with a brick ridge stack and a C20 rubble stack to south of ridge. Five bays aligned east/west (the two east bays and the west end bay are c1800 additions). Single storey and attic with dormers. South front elevation: windows are mainly C20 casements. There are two 2-light windows, two rectangular lights and a 3-light C19 casement on the ground floor and five eyebrow dormers, two with 2-light windows, two with 3-light windows and one with a C19 single-light window. One ground floor window has been replaced with a pair of C20 glazed doors. The main entrance is presently at the east gable end and has a flat canopy on brackets and a C20 stable door. The attic window above the entrance is a 2-light chamfered mullioned window and has a hoodmould with returns. The north elevation facing the road has a central 2-light casement with an eyebrow dormer and 2-light casement above. Interior: there is said to be some internal timber-framing.
Listing NGR: SO9491737774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148542
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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