Ledbury The Feathers Inn Herefordshire Vintage Print Old Picture 1958 OIOEIC#61

Description: Ledbury The Feathers Inn 1958 Vintage Print A colour print from a disbound book about English Inns dated 1958, with unrelated text on the reverse. Suitable for framing, the page size is approx 9.5" x 7" or 24cm x 18cm, edge to edge with no border. This is a vintage print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view the scans as they form part of the description. The date given of 1958 is the printing date, the actual date of creation can be earlier. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. Please note: That while every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. The text below is for information only and is from the opposite separate page it cannot be supplied with the print - All spelling subject to the OCR program used The "Feathers", LedburyThe western Midlands are especially notable for their richly half-timbered inns and the market town of Led-bury, on the Malvern Hills, not far from Hereford, offers two excellent examples in the sixteenth-century "Talbot" and the companion piece—here illustrated—the "Feathers" in the High Street. It was originally an Elizabethan house to which a Jacobean top storey was added, while a seventeenth-century block to the north, formerly the manor house, was made part of the inn in Georgian times. A wing at the back was built in the Cromwellian period and the "Feathers" also possesses an assembly room built on pillars over the stable yard. A late seventeenth-century staircase leads to the two upper floors where remains of wall paintings of the type popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean times are to be seen.The name, like that of other "Feathers", refers to the emblem of the Prince of Wales, and possibly, like that of another beautiful half-timbered inn, the "Feathers" at Ludlow in Shropshire, commemorates the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales in 1616. In the late eighteenth century it was a posting inn and remained a coaching inn until a surprisingly late date, for we are told that mail coaches were still stopping here in 1876. For two hundred years it was its special privilege also to hold a pew in the church, granted by Captain Samuel Skynner of Ledbury, of whom there is a bust in the church, in 1717. The attractiveness of its "black and white" structure with the charming departures from absolute regularity that timber—and age—give can well be appreciated in the illustration.

Price: 3.49 GBP

Location: Dereham

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