The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, ST PETER'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1207754
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, ST PETER'S STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1207754
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, ST PETER'S 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:
- THE OLD HOUSE, ST PETER'S 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 51081 40032
Details
HEREFORD
SO5140SW ST PETER'S STREET 683-1/8/305 (North East side) 10/06/52 The Old House
GV I
Shop and dwelling, now museum. c1621. Post-and-pan timber-frame and plaster; plain tile roof with 3 gables; central brick stack with pilasters and stone finials. 3 storeys, attic and cellar; 3-window range: 12-light, canted mullion and transom oriels on figurehead consoles; moulded bressumer, with smaller oriels over; quarterbraced panels with mullion lights to gables; enriched barge boards. Entrance to centre right: porch with studded plank door in 4-centred arch with carved spandrels and moulded case; enriched barge boards and pendants, on figurehead brackets; flanked by mullion and transom oriels, and, to left, 10-light bay window, under pentice roof, on moulded posts. Returned sides have enriched gables over mullion and transom oriels; further oriels and decoration to rear. INTERIOR: C17 staircase to 1st floor, with barley sugar twist balusters and moulded rail and string; early C19 balusters, from 1st to 2nd floor. 2nd floor: plank door with decorated strap hinges; exposed timbers; firegrate; fireback and bolection moulded fireplace. 1st floor: panelling; stone 4-centred arch fireplace with carved overmantel. Ground floor: stone fireplace with timber lintel; stone fireplace; plasterwork ceiling. Formerly part of Butcher's Row: a remarkable survival. (Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club: 1988-: 107; RCHME).
Listing NGR: SO5108140032
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 372492
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931)
Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists Field CLub in Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists Field CLub, (1988), 107
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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