Rous Lench Court, Rous Lench
Description: Rous Lench Court
Grade: II*
Date Listed: 30 July 1959
English Heritage Building ID: 148438
OS Grid Reference: SP0190552982
OS Grid Coordinates: 401905, 252982
Latitude/Longitude: 52.1751, -1.9735
Location: Rous Lench, Worcestershire WR11 4UJ
Locality: Rous Lench
Local Authority: Wychavon
County: Worcestershire
Country: England
Postcode: WR11 4UJ
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Listing Text
SP 05 SW ROUS LENCH CP ROUS LENCH
8/164 Rous Lench Court (formerly
listed as Lench Court)
30.7.59
GV II*
Country house. C16, extensively remodelled mid-C19. Timber-frame encased
with rendered brick and planted framing, on sandstone plinth, tile roof.
L-plan, limbs extending to west and north, numerous decorative chimney stakcs.
Garden (west) front: gabled projection to left and gabled cross-wing to right,
both of two storeys, with gable-lit attic to left, and jettied tie-beams; to
left a 6-light casement over a multi-light stone window; to right 3-light case-
ment over another 3-light casement; main range: three storeys with central
gable, four cross windows to first floor arranged 1:2:1, three 2-light case-
ments to second floor; ground floor: lean-to tiled canopy across whole frontage
of main range with central gabled entrance. Interior reported to have a
highly decorative stone chimneypiece from-Shaw, North Riding of Yorkshire.
(VCH 3, pp 497-8; BoE p 256; P Reid, 1980, Burke's and Savill's Guide to Country
[Houses, Volume II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire,]
pp 225-6).
Listing NGR: SP0190552982
Source: English Heritage
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