Governor'S House

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SO5140SW 683-1/8/138 22/10/73

HEREFORD UNION WALK Governor's House

(Formerly listed as Bus Station Offices)

(Formerly Listed as COMMERCIAL ROAD Omnibus Station Offices)

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Prison Governor's house, now offices. Part of gaol complex built to designs of John Nash. Early C19. Ashlar sandstone; hand-cut slate roof, hipped to right, with gables; 2 stone stacks to ridge, 2 to right end. 2-unit, lobby-entry plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 4-window range: 2/2 sashes in round-headed arches with keyed, moulded architraves; moulded and corbelled stone eaves. Rusticated ground floor with rusticated keyed arches to doors and windows: entrances to right, with half-glazed, round-headed doors in moulded cases; plate-glass windows in moulded round-headed cases, to left. Stucco pilaster to left. Glass verandah on cast-iron pillars continuing over C20 brick shelter to left returned side. Rear has remnant of early C19 brick wall on chamfered stone plinth, to right; 5-window range: louvred windows and doors in similar arches, but reduced in size. Left-hand element, with C20 door to far left, prominent, with roughcast, probably to brick. HISTORY: the house was part of the County Gaol, (gaol building now gone), which was erected in 1797 at a cost of »18,646.

Listing NGR: SO5144340228