THE FEATHERS HOTEL
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1301759
Date first listed: 18-Sep-1953
Statutory Address: THE FEATHERS HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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Location
Statutory Address: THE FEATHERS HOTEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Ledbury
National Grid Reference: SO 71098 37622
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
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5245 HIGH STREET
(West Side)
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The Feathers Hotel
SO 7137 NE 2/40 18.9.53.
II* GV
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2 adjoining blocks, formerly 2 houses. Left hand block. 1560-70. 3 storeys with
5 gables to attic with moulded bargeboards and pendants. This storey was added
in early C17. Timber framed with close-set studding. Carved pilasters on each
storey. Attic floor and 3rd floor project on moulded bressummers. 2 canted bays
of sashes on ground floor. Coach entrance on left with flush panelled double doors.
All sashes mostly with glazing bars. Right hand block. Stands slightly in advance
of above. Early C17. 3 storeys. Close-set timber framing with plaster filling:
hipped slate roof. Top storey projects; the one below formerly projected but has
been underbuilt. Moulded bressummers remain on each floor and below top one and
eaves cornice are scrolled brackets with ionic caps. Sash windows and bay on right
hand of 1st floor. A late C17 wing at the rear of the 2 blocks shows a portion
of roof with heavy stone slates.
Interior: much altered but much timber framing exposed. 1st floor of south block
ceiling with decoration in form of cross within a large circle. Somewhat altered
staircase of late C17 with twisted balusters and heavy moulded strings. RCHM (25).
Nos 21 to 23 (consec), The Feathers Hotel Nos 26 and 27 and St Katherine's Chapel
and Hall form a group.
Listing NGR: SO7109837622
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 151866
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing