Cheslyn

CHESLYN, 181, WHITECROSS ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196891
Date first listed:
27-Jul-1994
List Entry Name:
Cheslyn
Statutory Address:
CHESLYN, 181, WHITECROSS ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196891
Date first listed:
27-Jul-1994
List Entry Name:
Cheslyn
Statutory Address 1:
CHESLYN, 181, WHITECROSS ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHESLYN, 181, WHITECROSS ROAD

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hereford
National Grid Reference:
SO 49648 40436

Details

HEREFORD

SO44SE WHITECROSS ROAD 683-1/9/321 (South side) No.181 Cheslyn

II

House. Late C19. Brick; Welsh slate roof; brick end stack with caps. 2 storeys and cellar; 3-window range: central stained-glass French windows to balcony, flanked by stone canted bay-windows with plain sashes; deep eaves on cast-iron brackets. Central entrance with part-glazed panelled door and plain overlight, under stone flat hood on scrolled consoles and moulded pilasters; flanked by similar bays. Stone band and stucco quoins. Ornate cast-iron screen and balcony. Right returned side: cellar door; small projecting wing with leaded casement under semicircular brick arch, over plank double doors. Wing to rear (possibly later) with raised stack with 2 caps. INTERIOR: late C19 dogleg staircase with stick balusters and moulded rail. 1st floor: casement with 12 Apostles stained-glass; C19 hobgrate with wood surround; wall cupboard; picture-rails; ceiling mouldings; architraves to windows; 4-panel doors with architraves; two C19 tiled fireplaces with wood surrounds; conservatory with polychrome tiled floor; round-headed cast-iron window. Ground floor: C19 tiled fireplace with later wood surround and overmantel; polychrome tiled floor to hall; early C20 double doors with coloured glazing; ceiling mouldings; C19 cast-iron stove in cast-iron fireplace with wood surround; 4-panel doors; kitchen dresser. and tiled floor. Cellar: stone-lined with some brick; plank door. (Pevsner: Buildings of Herefordshire: 190).

Listing NGR: SO4964840436

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Legacy System number:
372507
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 190

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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