Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1349847
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Ley
- Statutory Address:
- THE LEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1349847
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Ley
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LEY
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.
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:
- THE LEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weobley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 39263 51194
Details
SO 35 SE WEOBLEY CP -
6/90 The Ley
20.2.53 - I
House, now two houses. 1589 for James Bridges, with some late C19 and late C20 restoration. Timber-frame with rendered infill on a doursed rubble plinth under a graduated stone tile roof. H-plan, main range aligned east/west. Lateral stack to rear (south) wall of main range and east wall of eastern cross-wing. They are both of rubble with C19 brick shafts. North front of two storeys with projecting gabled cross-wings, each with two-storey square bay windows. The central range has a similar window. There is a two-storey gabled porch in the angle with the right-hand cross-wing. The left-hand cross-wing has a 5-light mullion and transom window on each storey with a gable above. This has a projecting tie-beam and enriched bargeboards. The central bay window has a 5-light mullion and transom window to each floor. The gable has enriched bargeboards and decorated plaster panels. At the back of this bay a gabled dormer rises from the main roof with bargeboards and scroll brackets. The two-storey porch has moulded framing and scroll brackets supporting the jettied first floor. This has a 3-light mullion and transom window. The gable has moulded bargeboards and a pendant. The doorway has a flat triangular head with two carved panels above bearing a shield of arms, with the initials "I B" on one, and the words "In Dei nomine" with date 1589 on the other. The inner doorway has a moulded frame and a panelled door under a 3-pane overlight. The right-hand cross-wing has a 5-light mullion and transom window to each floor. The gable of the window has moulded bargeboards. Framing: mainly six square panels high surmounted by a narrow band of close-studding. The left-hand cross-wing has straight angle braces to the ground floor below straight tension braces on the first floor. The cross- wing gables each have two collars with between them two square panels with quadrant braces. Interior not inspected, but reported to have exposed moulded ceiling beams and some remnants of panelling. (RCHM, 3, p 196-7, no 8; BoE, p 314).
Listing NGR: SO3926351194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 196-197
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 314
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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