22, Widemarsh Street is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1952. Shop. 6 related planning applications.
22, Widemarsh Street
- WRENN ID
- guardian-corbel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1952
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 22, Widemarsh Street, Hereford, HR4 9EP
- OS grid reference
- SO 509 401
- Coordinates
- 52.05753, -2.71612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
22 Widemarsh Street is a former house, now a shop, dating from the early 18th century. The building is constructed of painted brick and features a hipped plain tile roof with a gable at the front, a central brick stack, and an additional stack to the right rear. It has a central staircase plan and stands three storeys high with an attic, displaying a five-window range. The windows are 2/2 sashes in moulded cases, set under gauged brick flat arches, with additional 2/2 sashes above. The central section, which has three windows, protrudes under the gable roof and includes a storey band and a pediment. The ground floor has 20th-century shop fronts with doorways on the central and right-hand sides.
At the right rear, there is a gable wing featuring a single 6/6 sash window under a segmental arch, brick modillion eaves, and a part-glazed door to the right with a plain overlight and rendered reveals, set in a brick pointed arch. To the left of this door is a 20th-century window under a segmental arch. The rear of the building includes a brick stack and a hipped gable to the left rear, which has a two-storey Gothick-glazed pointed arch.
Inside, the building features a late 18th-century open-well staircase with turned balusters and acorn finials on the turned newels, as well as a 19th-century winder stair leading to the second floor of the rear wing. The second floor includes a 19th-century fireplace and mantel, 18th-century two-panel doors, a bolection-moulded fireplace, a wall cupboard, and additional 19th-century doors. The first floor has a late 19th-century plank door, late 19th-century fireplaces, and various 18th-century features including a shouldered fire surround, two-panel doors, and a large Gothick-glazed window with a quatrefoil head at the rear. The ground floor is adorned with a late 18th-century ceiling cornice.
Additionally, there is a plaque on the building marking the site of the birthplace of David Garrick, dated 1716.
Local climate
22, Widemarsh Street receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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