2 Bridge Street (The Lighthouse) and 2A Bridge Street (Kenwater House)

2 Bridge Street (The Lighthouse) and 2A Bridge Street (Kenwater House)

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255358
Date first listed:
24-Jul-1954
List Entry Name:
2 Bridge Street (The Lighthouse) and 2A Bridge Street (Kenwater House)
Statutory Address:
2 Bridge Street (The Lighthouse) and 2A Bridge Street (Kenwater House)
large house with frontage to street and also long frontage above Kenwater. On right is  parapet of  Kenwater bridge
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255358
Date first listed:
24-Jul-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Mar-1996
List Entry Name:
2 Bridge Street (The Lighthouse) and 2A Bridge Street (Kenwater House)
Statutory Address 1:
2 Bridge Street (The Lighthouse) and 2A Bridge Street (Kenwater House)

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
2 Bridge Street (The Lighthouse) and 2A Bridge Street (Kenwater House)

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Leominster
National Grid Reference:
SO 49589 59350

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 November 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards

SO4959
808-1/1/13

LEOMINSTER
BRIDGE STREET (East side)
2 (The Lighthouse) and 2A (Kenwater House)

(Formerly listed as No.2 and Kenwater House, previously listed as BRIDGE STREET
No.2 Light House)

24/07/54

GV
II

House, now shop and dwelling. C18. Roughcast; hipped Welsh slate roof; two brick stacks to right rear. L-shaped on plan.

Two storeys and attic; five-window range: late C19 6/6 sashes (C18 to left) in broad, moulded cases, and blind opening; deep moulded and modillioned wood eaves; three roof-dormers with C19 two-light casements, with enriched architraves, under hipped roofs. Entrance to centre right: part-glazed six-panel door in moulded case, with fanlight, under coved, moulded semicircular hood on scrolled brackets; flanked by 6/6 sashes in broad, moulded cases; to left, passage to rear, with six-panel double doors under moulded lintels; storey band; moulded quoins.

Right returned side: central blind opening flanked by pairs of C20 sashes in broad beaded cases, to ground and first floors; returned band and eaves detail.

Wing to rear: rendered; slate roof; brick stack; various sashes, lights and casements; storey band; roof-dormer.

INTERIOR not inspected.

(RCHME: Herefordshire: 119 (38)).

Listing NGR: SO4958959350

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
459568
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 119

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 2 Bridge Street (The Lighthouse) and 2A Bridge Street (Kenwater House)

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