LYCH GATE ABOUT 90 YARDS SOUTH-SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349169
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE ABOUT 90 YARDS SOUTH-SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address:: LYCH GATE ABOUT 90 YARDS SOUTH-SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349169
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE ABOUT 90 YARDS SOUTH-SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address 1:: LYCH GATE ABOUT 90 YARDS SOUTH-SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

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

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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:: LYCH GATE ABOUT 90 YARDS SOUTH-SOUTH-EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Woolhope
National Grid Reference:: SO 61174 35698

Details

WOOLHOPE CP WOOLHOPE SO 63 NW

4/270 Lychgate about 90 yards south-south-east of the Church of St George

GV II

Lychgate. Probably C17, restored in late C19 to early C20. Sandstone side plinths, timber-framed with stone slate roof. One bay aligned north/south. South elevation: corner posts with restored pegged angle struts to tie-beam from which scissor-braces support principals; gates, probably C18 with con- temporary hinges, plate and handle. Side walls have posts and panels, probably c1900. Matching rear truss to north is only slightly restored though inner gates beneath are probably C20. (RCHM Vol II, p 221).

Listing NGR: SO6117435698

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Legacy System number:: 152937
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Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 221

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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.