20, CHURCH STREET
20, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1206265
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 20, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 20, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1206265
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 20, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, CHURCH 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:
- 20, CHURCH STREET
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 51011 39882
Details
HEREFORD
SO5139NW CHURCH STREET 683-1/7/127 (East side) 10/06/52 No.20
GV II*
House. Mostly C18 brick skin to C14 core. Brick; timber-frame; slate(?) roof; coursed sandstone rubble stack with brick chimney. 3-bay unit, with later additions. INTERIOR incorporates medieval hall, (c1350-1400) with crown post roof, (the only one in Hereford), and 2 original ogee-moulded entrance doors. South wall incorporates at first floor level an extremely well-preserved original window consisting of 4 cusped ogee-arched headed lights. Directly below on the ground floor is an equally well-preserved 4-light window of less ornate design but of the same period. Graffiti on brick west gable reads, "Daniel Watts 1726". In the C19 and early C20, the house was occupied by the Cathedral Organist, and was much frequented by Sir Edward Elgar, who commenced several major works in a specially designated "composing room". Currently undergoing extensive restoration. (Shoesmith R: Elgar Associations; Wulfstan-Atkins E: The Elgar Atkins friendship: 1984-; City of Hereford Archaeology Report Series 82: July: 1990-; RCHME).
Listing NGR: SO5101139882
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 372307
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931)
Wulfstan, A E, The Elgar Atkins friendship, (1984)
Shoesmith, R, Elgar Associations, ()
City of Hereford Archaeology Committee Report in July, Vol. 82, (1990)
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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