St Owen's Chambers and Attached Railings is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1952. A C18 House, printing works. 3 related planning applications.
St Owen's Chambers and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- moated-corridor-ivy
- 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
- House, printing works
- Address
- St Owen's Chambers and Attached Railings, 22, St Owen Street, Hereford, HR1 2PL
- OS grid reference
- SO 512 398
- Coordinates
- 52.05499, -2.7124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Owen's Chambers, formerly known as No. 129 Barrell House, is a house that has been converted into printing works. It dates from the early 18th century and is constructed of brick with a hipped Welsh slate roof and brick end stacks. The building features a central staircase plan and has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar.
The exterior is symmetrical with a six-window range, showcasing 4/4 sash windows in moulded cases with beaded reveals, all set under gauged brick flat arches. The eaves are moulded and modillioned. The central entrance, which is a 20th-century six-panel door, is framed by a moulded case and a moulded, panelled flat hood supported by brackets. This entrance is flanked by 2/2 and 4/4 sash windows. Attached to the building are railings with a tendril motif that lead up to the entrance steps.
On the left side of the building, there are two blocked openings, a 20th-century 9/6 sash window, and an 18th-century cross window with leaded lights. The entrance also features a 19th-century six-panel door with an overlight that has glazing bars, alongside an 18th-century casement window with leaded lights, two 6/6 sash windows, and a storey band.
Inside, there are two staircases with bobbin balusters, and moulded strings and rails leading to the second floor, which has a panelled dado on the right-hand flight. The second floor includes two 19th-century fireplaces, one 18th-century and one 19th-century two-panel door, along with a two-panel plank door, four-panel doors, architraves, fire surrounds, and overlights.
On the first floor, there are six-panel doors in panelled reveals and architraves, a 19th-century marble fireplace, panelled risers and architraves around the windows, a late 19th-century wooden fireplace, and three fanlight-glazed overlights, as well as plain overlights and two four-panel and six-panel doors, including an eight-panel door.
The ground floor features a plain overlight, fanlight-glazed overlights, two four-panel doors, a 19th-century tiled fireplace, coving, skirting, architraves, and shutters. The cellars are extensive, containing a well and are part stone and part brick-lined, retaining brick, slate, and timber bins, with cobbled and brick floors.
Local climate
St Owen's Chambers and Attached Railings 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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