The Nash
THE NASH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157596
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Nash
- Statutory Address:
- THE NASH
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- Date:
- 2002-08-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/07483/31
- Rights:
- © Mr John Burrows. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157596
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Nash
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE NASH
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:
- THE NASH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kempsey
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 85861 47421
Details
KEMPSEY CP - SO 84 NE 7/10 The Nash 11.8.52 - II House. Circa 1600 with probable earlier remains. Altered 1831 and early C20. Brick with stone dressings and tile roof. Two storeys with attics. The south front is a balanced composition with two bays to each side of a central two-storey porch. Each bay has a crow-stepped gable. The present mullioned and transomed windows replace mullioned windows of 1831 shown in a photograph in VCH. They are of three lights with transom except for those on the ground floor of the middle bays and the first floor of the right- hand bay, which are of four lights. The attic is lit by 3-light mullioned windows. The porch has a cross-window on the first floor, a Tudor-arched doorway, and a gable with coping and finials. Chimneys have diagonal shafts. Interior: not accessible at time of survey (October 1986). Said to contain remains of timber-framing. The dinining room and oak bedroom are said to have oak panelling and plaster ceilings of c1600, with vine, rose, ash, oak and thistle in ogee patterns. Oak bedroom said to have large painted mantel of figures and strapwork dated 1598. Main stair said to be early C18, with slim twisted and columnar balusters and carved tread-ends. (BoE, p 203; VCH, Vol 3, p 430).
Listing NGR: SO8586147421
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153323
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 430
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 203
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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