23, 23A and 23B, High Street

23, 23A and 23B High Street, Leominster, HR6 8LZ

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Overview

Shop and dwelling constructed in the late-C18 or early-C19. The shopfront was replaced during the mid-C20. It is now (2022) in use as a shop with flats above. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255469
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: 23, 23A and 23B, High Street
Statutory Address:: 23, 23A and 23B High Street, Leominster, HR6 8LZ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255469
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Oct-2023
List Entry Name:: 23, 23A and 23B, High Street
Statutory Address 1:: 23, 23A and 23B High Street, Leominster, HR6 8LZ

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:: 23, 23A and 23B High Street, Leominster, HR6 8LZ

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 49644 59054

Summary

Shop and dwelling constructed in the late-C18 or early-C19. The shopfront was replaced during the mid-C20. It is now (2022) in use as a shop with flats above.

History

The town of Leominster traces its origins to the establishment of a religious house there during the C7 or earlier. The Saxon settlement endured repeated Viking raids and is recorded as a sizeable town in the Domesday Book (1086), with 27 households. In the early-C12, King Henry I established a Benedictine Priory in the town and granted a foundation charter for the town’s market. The town thrived throughout the later medieval period, despite periodic unrest due to its location in the border region. Leominster wool was prized across Europe and bestowed considerable wealth upon the town. The town centre retains many medieval and early-modern buildings; secular buildings are timber framed while surviving Priory buildings are constructed of local sandstone. The town centre retains an essentially medieval street pattern, with long, narrow burgage plots fronting the north-south spine road of Broad Street-High Street-South Street, and Corn Square (the historic market place) lying to the east of the High Street. The remains of the Priory, dissolved in 1539, lie to the north-east of the town centre. The town remained a prominent local centre into the C18 and C19. During this period, many timber-framed buildings were replaced (or refronted) by brick buildings with Classical elevations. Many houses in the town centre were partially converted to commercial use and equipped with shopfronts during the later-C19 and C20.

The building was constructed during the late-C18 or early-C19, likely on the site of an earlier building. It was probably built as a shop house (a shop with dwelling above). A new shopfront was installed during the mid-C20. The building is currently (2022) in use as a shop with flats above.

Details

Shop and dwelling constructed in the late-C18 or early-C19. The shopfront was replaced during the mid-C20. It is now (2022) in use as a shop with flats above.

MATERIALS: the building is constructed of red brick laid in Flemish bond with stucco dressings and a timber shopfront and eaves. The partially-exposed rear elevation is of roughcast render. The roof covering is understood to be slate.

PLAN: the building is arranged on a rectangular plan facing the High Street to the west and enclosed on three sides by adjoining buildings. There is access to the rear via an alleyway off of Victoria Street to the south and a doorway in the partially-exposed south elevation.

EXTERIOR: the building is three storeys in height under a pitched roof with a moulded timber cornice. The principal elevation onto High Street (to the west) is one bay wide. On the ground floor is a timber shopfront with a brick base, consisting of two pilasters framing a large, plate glass window, with an entrance containing a modern (late-C20) door from Ironmongers Lane, within a moulded, C19 doorframe with blocked overlight, and a large fascia board with a moulded border.

The first and second floors each carry a single, timber sash window with gauged brickwork flat-arch heads with enriched stucco keystones. The first-floor window has eight-over-eight glazing and the second-floor window has four-over-eight glazing, along with a stucco sill. Between the first and second-floor windows is a long, horizontal iron strap with forked ends.

The partially-exposed south elevation has timber, C20 door on the ground floor. The upper floors are jettied. The first and second floors each carry a two-over-two glazed, timber sash window with horns, set within a plain timber surround set flush with the façade.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 459740
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brooks, A, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (2012), 442-443, 458
Other
OS Map 25” (1885 edn), Herefordshire XII.15.
OS Map 25” (1927 edn) Herefordshire XII.15.

Legal

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