Forsythia and West Leigh
FORSYTHIA AND WEST LEIGH, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1349914
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Forsythia and West Leigh
- Statutory Address:
- FORSYTHIA AND WEST LEIGH, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1349914
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Forsythia and West Leigh
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORSYTHIA AND WEST LEIGH, WEST STREET
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:
- FORSYTHIA AND WEST LEIGH, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pembridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 38942 58139
Details
PEMBRIDGE CP WEST STREET (north side) SO 3858 - 3958
10/87 Forsythia and West Leigh
GV II
House, now sub-divided into two tenements, formerly central hall with cross- wings. C14 or C15 core, altered during C17 and further greatly altered during mid-C19. Square panelled timber-framing with painted brick infill/and sand- stone rubble plinth; hipped Welsh slate roof. Former hall aligned east/west flarked by cross-wings; the whole has now been re-roofed with the gables of the cross-wings cut back and the whole roof now hipped; lateral and axial stacks. Two storeys. South front: one 3-light casement window to jettied left cross-wing with 2-light window and four-panelled door to ground floor, central hall with 2-light casement window and panelled door to ground floor. Former cross-wing to right has canted bay window and ledged door. The right- hand cross-wing has traces of a moulded bressummer, but the jetty has been underbuilt. (RCHM, Vol III, p 165, item 78).
Listing NGR: SO3894158139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 165
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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