BIGGLESWADE HOUSE

BIGGLESWADE HOUSE, 23, CHURCH STREET

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A house in a row, dating from the C17, with later alterations. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1082354
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: BIGGLESWADE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BIGGLESWADE HOUSE, 23, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1082354
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Feb-2011
List Entry Name:: BIGGLESWADE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BIGGLESWADE HOUSE, 23, CHURCH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BIGGLESWADE HOUSE, 23, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bromyard and Winslow
National Grid Reference:: SO 65594 54735

Details

BROMYARD

815/1/173 CHURCH STREET 12-APR-73 BROMYARD 23 Biggleswade House (Formerly listed as: CHURCH STREET BROMYARD 19)

GV II A house in a row, dating from the C17, with later alterations.

MATERIALS: timber-framed, with roughcast render to the main elevation, and brick end stacks.

PLAN: the building is a simple rectangle on plan, a single-depth range with outshut to the rear.

EXTERIOR: the main elevation is of two storeys and two bays, a timber-framed range set on a stone plinth, rendered above the plinth. The central entrance doorway is flanked by C20 timber casement windows; the first floor has two similar but smaller windows. There is a single roof light to the right of centre, set into the slate roof, which is quite steeply pitched. The brick end stacks have projecting courses towards their tops, which have terra cotta chimney pots.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORY: Bromyard is a small market town that was first recorded in circa 840. Biggleswade House, 23 Church Street is situated on one of the principal thoroughfares in the town, adjoining the church with the market square. It continues south into Sherford Street, and together they were known as Verterus Vicus in the late C13 and recorded as Shurford Streate in 1575. This central area of the town to the south of the church and around the market place appears to have been fully built up by the early C17, though some of the plots have been re-developed since that time.

Biggleswade House, 23 Church Street is dates originally from the C17. It has undergone some later alterations to the main elevation, including the replacement of the windows, and the rendering of the timber frame.

SOURCES: Dalwood H and Bryant V, An Archaeological Assessment of Bromyard - The Central Marches Historic Towns Survey 1992-6 (2005) James D, Insight Historic Buildings Research, An Analysis of the Historic Fabric of Fifty Buildings in the Central Area of Bromyard, Herefordshire (2009)

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Biggleswade House, 23 Church Street, is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: as a timber-framed building of the C17 * Group value: with the numerous other listed buildings in Church Street

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Legacy System number:: 151008
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.