Governor's House
GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, UNION WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297437
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Governor's House
- Statutory Address:
- GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, UNION WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297437
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Governor's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, UNION WALK
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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.
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:
- GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, UNION WALK
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 51443 40228
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/05/2012
SO5140SW
683-1/8/138
22/10/73
HEREFORD
UNION WALK
Governor's House
(Formerly listed as Bus Station Offices)
(Formerly Listed as COMMERCIAL ROAD Omnibus Station Offices)
II
Prison Governor's house, now offices. Part of gaol complex
built to designs of John Nash. Early C19. Ashlar sandstone;
hand-cut slate roof, hipped to right, with gables; 2 stone
stacks to ridge, 2 to right end. 2-unit, lobby-entry plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 4-window range: 2/2 sashes in
round-headed arches with keyed, moulded architraves; moulded
and corbelled stone eaves. Rusticated ground floor with
rusticated keyed arches to doors and windows: entrances to
right, with half-glazed, round-headed doors in moulded cases;
plate-glass windows in moulded round-headed cases, to left.
Stucco pilaster to left. Glass verandah on cast-iron pillars
continuing over C20 brick shelter to left returned side.
Rear has remnant of early C19 brick wall on chamfered stone
plinth, to right; 5-window range: louvred windows and doors in
similar arches, but reduced in size. Left-hand element, with
C20 door to far left, prominent, with roughcast, probably to
brick.
HISTORY: the house was part of the County Gaol, (gaol building
now gone), which was erected in 1797 at a cost of »18,646.
Listing NGR: SO5144340228
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 372317
- 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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