Description

LEOMINSTER

SO4958 WEST STREET
808-1/2/219 (South side)
24/07/54 Nos.5, 7 AND 9
Talbot Hotel

GV II

Houses, now hotel. No.5: C18 front to C17 core. Painted brick;
hipped roof of old plain tiles; brick lateral stack and C20
stack to rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 2-window range: 3-storey
canted bays with 2/2: 12/12: 2/2 sashes in beaded cases,
flanking blind arcade with plastered sinkings under segmental
arches, on 1st and 2nd floors. Central entrance: C20 plank
door under 4-centred arch, and C18 moulded wood hood on
consoles, with C20 wrought-iron balcony over; flanked by blind
openings with C20 lights and brickwork, under segmental
arches. Rear: wing with steep-pitched Welsh slate roof, and
C18 brick end stack.
No.7: C19. Painted brick; hipped slate(?) roof; brick end
stacks. 3 storeys; 3-window range: late C19 9/1 sashes under
segmental arches with keyblocks; 3/3 sashes with continuous
sill-band under similar arches; brick cornice. Entrance to
right: C20 plank door and glazed overlight, under earlier
overlight, and C20 balconette; 2 late C19 6/6 sashes under
gauged brick flat arches with keyblocks; moulded brick band
overall.
No.9: C17 with C18 alterations. Close studded post and pan
framing with plaster panels, over C18 brickwork; Welsh slate
roof. 2 storeys and cellar; 3-window range: C18 8/8 sashes
and, to left, late C19 6/6 sash, in broad moulded cases.
Part-glazed double doors and blocked overlight, flanked by
bow-windows on iron brackets; moulded and modillioned wood
fascia-board and hood, with triglyphs on plain pilasters; to
right, late C19 6/6 sash.
INTERIOR: No.5: exposed C17 timber-framing. Others not
inspected.
(RCHME: Herefordshire: 125 (150,151)).

Listing NGR: SO4959258972

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Talbot Hotel official website
• Wikidata Q26547108

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)