Lion House
Lion House, 15 Broad Street, Leominster, HR6 8BT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255380
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lion House
- Statutory Address:
- Lion House, 15 Broad Street, Leominster, HR6 8BT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255380
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lion House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lion House, 15 Broad Street, Leominster, HR6 8BT
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:
- Lion House, 15 Broad Street, Leominster, HR6 8BT
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:
- SO4959659183
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 January 2023 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards
SO 4959
808-1/1/47
LEOMINSTER
BROAD STREET (West side)
No 15 (Lion House)
(Formerly listed as No.15, Lion Works)
24.07.1954
GV
II
Shops and offices. Late C18/early C19. Stucco; steep-pitched hipped composite tile roof; brick ridge stack.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and cellar; three-window range: tripartite 2/2: 6/6: 2/2 sashes with some old glass, in broad beaded cases; 1/1: 3/3: 1/1 sashes with sillband, over; band with six garlands, and moulded cornice to parapet with central figure of lion. C20 shop fronts recessed behind four moulded segmental arches with enriched keyblocks, on square columns; four-moulded-panel door and plain fanlight, under moulded semicircular arch, to right; moulded cornice with figurehead stop-consoles, overall; to right, panelled double doors with cambered heads, in chamfered frame under shallow arch, to passage to rear.
Rear: twin gables, one slate-hung, one with brick modillion eaves; brick stack. Two-storey cross-wing with hipped Welsh slate roof, and tripartite window with 2/2: 6/6: 2/2 sashes in oak case, over late C19 triple 6/6 sashes.
INTERIOR not inspected. Associated with Alexander & Duncan's Lion Foundry, which produced agricultural machinery.
Listing NGR: SO4959659183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459603
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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