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Rous Lench Court

A Grade II* Listed Building in Rous Lench, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1751 / 52°10'30"N

Longitude: -1.9735 / 1°58'24"W

OS Eastings: 401905

OS Northings: 252982

OS Grid: SP019529

Mapcode National: GBR 2HZ.RTB

Mapcode Global: VHB0D.RL0F

Plus Code: 9C4W52GG+2H

Entry Name: Rous Lench Court

Listing Date: 30 July 1959

Last Amended: 28 June 1985

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1081656

English Heritage Legacy ID: 148438

ID on this website: 101081656

Location: Rous Lench, Wychavon, Worcestershire, WR11

County: Worcestershire

District: Wychavon

Civil Parish: Rous Lench

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire

Church of England Parish: Rous Lench

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

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Description


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

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