The Town Council Offices
3, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1082903
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Town Council Offices
- Statutory Address:
- 3, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1082903
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Nov-1976
- List Entry Name:
- The Town Council Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE TOWN COUNCIL OFFICES, CHURCH 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:
- 3, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWN COUNCIL OFFICES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ledbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 71126 37731
Details
SO 7137 NE 2/8
18.9.53.
CHURCH LANE(North Side)
The Town Council Offices and No 3 (formerly listed as Ledbury Urban District Council Offices)
GII*
The earliest part on the south is C15 and extended eastwards circa 1600.A double gabled wing to the north (rear) was added also circa1600.C18 alterations.Exposed timber framing.Two storeys and dormers.On the earliest part facing Church Lane the timber framing is close set and the first floor projects along the whole south front on a moulded bressumer and corbels.Three and five-light casement windows in projecting frames with old wooden mullions and transoms.The ground floor has three small early C19 canted bays with glazing bars.The west end has a high brick base.The north(rear) is timber framed and the wide panels are plastered.Interior south:dragon ceiling beam,late C16 or early C17 panelling with cornice and fluted frieze,under the ceiling beam are pilasters with panels of carved foliage. RCHM (65).The Town Council offices, No 3, Public Lavatories, Hawkes and Terry Prince of Wales Inn, The Old Grammar School and Rutherglen form a group.
Listing NGR: SO7112637731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 151818
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932)
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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