20, Church Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1952. A Medieval House.
20, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- spare-floor-plover
- 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
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- 20, Church Street, Hereford
- OS grid reference
- SO 510 398
- Coordinates
- 52.05515, -2.71588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Church Street is a house primarily built in the 18th century, featuring a brick exterior that covers a core dating back to the 14th century. The structure is made of brick and timber-frame, topped with a slate roof and has a coursed sandstone rubble stack with a brick chimney. It consists of three bays with later additions.
Inside, the house includes a medieval hall from around 1350 to 1400, notable for its crown post roof, which is the only one of its kind in Hereford. There are also two original ogee-moulded entrance doors. The south wall features a well-preserved original window at the first floor level, consisting of four cusped ogee-arched headed lights. Below this, on the ground floor, is another well-preserved four-light window of a simpler design but from the same period. Graffiti on the west gable reads, "Daniel Watts 1726."
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the house was home to the Cathedral Organist and was frequently visited by Sir Edward Elgar, who began several major works in a designated "composing room" within the house. It is currently undergoing extensive restoration.
Local climate
20, Church 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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