Rous Lench Court
ROUS LENCH COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081656
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Rous Lench Court
- Statutory Address:
- ROUS LENCH COURT
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03452/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081656
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Rous Lench Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROUS LENCH COURT
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:
- ROUS LENCH COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rous Lench
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 01905 52982
Details
SP 05 SW ROUS LENCH CP ROUS LENCH
8/164 Rous Lench Court (formerly listed as Lench Court) 30.7.59
GV II*
Country house. C16, extensively remodelled mid-C19. Timber-frame encased with rendered brick and planted framing, on sandstone plinth, tile roof. L-plan, limbs extending to west and north, numerous decorative chimney stakcs. Garden (west) front: gabled projection to left and gabled cross-wing to right, both of two storeys, with gable-lit attic to left, and jettied tie-beams; to left a 6-light casement over a multi-light stone window; to right 3-light case- ment over another 3-light casement; main range: three storeys with central gable, four cross windows to first floor arranged 1:2:1, three 2-light case- ments to second floor; ground floor: lean-to tiled canopy across whole frontage of main range with central gabled entrance. Interior reported to have a highly decorative stone chimneypiece from-Shaw, North Riding of Yorkshire. (VCH 3, pp 497-8; BoE p 256; P Reid, 1980, Burke's and Savill's Guide to Country [Houses, Volume II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire,] pp 225-6).
Listing NGR: SP0190552982
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148438
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 497-8
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 256
Reid, P, Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, Vol. 2, (1980), 225-6
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,
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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