TOWNSEND HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS

TOWNSEND HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 15, GREEN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255447
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1954
List Entry Name:: TOWNSEND HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address:: TOWNSEND HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 15, GREEN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255447
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Mar-1996
List Entry Name:: TOWNSEND HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: TOWNSEND HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 15, GREEN LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: TOWNSEND HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 15, GREEN LANE

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 49283 59144

Details

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SO4959 GREEN LANE 808-1/1/145 No.15 24/07/54 Townsend House and attached walls (Formerly Listed as: GREEN LANE No.15 Townsend House)

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House. C17 and C18. English bond brick; stucco; plaster; hipped Welsh slate roof; various brick stacks; large brick and stone buttress stack to rear of wing. L-shaped on plan. EXTERIOR: North front (to street): 2 storeys; single-window range: C19 tripartite window with 2/2: 6/6: 2/2 sashes; two C19 6/6 sashes to ground floor, under jetty. Right returned side: 6/6 and small 2/2 sliding sashes, in stucco to 1st floor. Recessed wing to right has 2 advanced bays; to left, 6/6 sash over C19 ashlar porch with semicircular arch under enriched frieze on pilasters with figures; blocked C18(?) with inserted cross-window with leaded lights; to right, 6/6 sash over C18(?) moulded wood mullion and transom window with leaded lights; central C19 eight/eight sash flanked by wood mullion window with leaded lights, over large mullion and transom window with leaded lights, under moulded wood cornice. Left returned side: 6-panel door under flat hood, flanked by 6/6 sashes; gable over; buttress stack. Right returned side: C18 brickwork with storey band. Rear: three 6/6 sashes and blocked opening, to 1st floor. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached garden walls, of C18 and C19 brick on rubble base, extend for approx 150m to east and for approx 50m to west of street front. (RCHME: Herefordshire: 116 (6)).

Listing NGR: SO4928359144

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Legacy System number:: 459711
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 116

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