Leintwardine House and Garden Walls Attached to East
LEINTWARDINE HOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED TO EAST, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082033
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Leintwardine House and Garden Walls Attached to East
- Statutory Address:
- LEINTWARDINE HOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED TO EAST, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082033
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Leintwardine House and Garden Walls Attached to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEINTWARDINE HOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED TO EAST, HIGH STREET
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:
- LEINTWARDINE HOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS ATTACHED TO EAST, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leintwardine
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 40415 73944
Details
SO 4074 - 4174 LEINTWARDINE CP HIGH STREET (east side)
10/61 Leintwardine House and garden walls attached to east
GV II
House and garden walls. Early C19 with earlier origins. Sandstone rubble and brick mainly colour-washed. Welsh slate roofs, some hipped. Roughly rectangular plan with main front to south. Two and three storeys. South elevation has 2:1:1 windows, glazing bar sashes. Slightly advanced asymmetrically positioned three-storey gable is flanked by two pairs of early C19 tripartite sashes, one to each floor. The left side has an orthodox first floor sash as does the first floor of the gable. Top floor of gable has round headed window. Entry to gable has restored porch with two unfluted Doric columns, fluted frieze and cornice. Glazed and panelled C19 door. Attached to the left is a lower two-storey wing. Garden walls to right are brick in the form of a blind segmental arcade with six arches aligned east/west and three more returning southwards at east end to a downward quadrant ramp. The north and east side of the walls are finished in rubble and the first contains bee boles. Interior of house has flagged stone floors with diaper pattern. Cantilevered early C19 two-flight stair- case; the first flight has stone treads, the second mahogany. Turned newel posts and stick balusters and wreathed handrail with ivory inlay at bottom. Hall has moulded plaster frieze with acanthus decoration. To rear of hall is an internal fanlight with a dropped keystone. Seventeen service bells in former kitchen to north. Leintwardine House was the home of General Sir Barastre Tarleton, youthful British hero of the American War of Independence, later friend of the Prince of Wales, and lover of the Prince's ex-mistress, the actress, Mary Robinson, known as Perdita. His monument is in the Church of St Barnabas (qv). (Bowater, V: The Church of St Mary Magdalene, Leintwardine, 1978).
Listing NGR: SO4041573944
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149527
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bowater, V, The Church of St Mary Magdalene Leintwardine, (1978)
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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