Tower About 15 Metres South of Church of St Leonard
TOWER ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1081790
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tower About 15 Metres South of Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, GREEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1081790
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tower About 15 Metres South of Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, GREEN LANE
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:
- TOWER ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, GREEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Croft and Yarpole
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 46974 64844
Details
YARPOLE CP GREEN LANE (north side) SO 46 SE 6/143 Tower about 15 metres south of Church of St Leonard GV I
Detached tower. Probably C13, restored 1910. Random rubble with some ashlar dressings and stone tile and shingle roof. Square plan walls on ground floor enclosing frame of tower, lean-to roofs on stone walls, upper part of tower weatherboarded with range of seven pierced quatrefoils just below the pyramidal roof. The entrance in north wall has a chamfered segmental pointed arch. The boarded door has plain strap hinges. Simple slit windows in the other walls. Interior: whole tower supported on four massive corner posts which are inclined inwards and taper towards the top. The sides between posts are scissor-braced. Empty mortices in the main posts suggest that the outer wall may have been timber-framed. The early C20 restorers bolted new braces onto the inside of the frame. (RCHM, 3, p 215; BoE, p 327).
Listing NGR: SO4697464844
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150166
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 215
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 327
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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