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Downton Castle Downton-On-The-Rock Ludlow Herefordshire SY8 2LF

P261919/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 27 August 2026

Council decision: Approved with Conditions

Proposal

Reinstatement of roof with hatch access. New external stone staircase to first floor. Replacement window. Replacement doors. New internal floors and internal staircases. Various internal and external repairs.

Submitted
8 July 2026
  1. Received8 Jul
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Aug

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a listed building consent application for window replacement at Downton Castle Downton-On-The-Rock Ludlow Herefordshire SY8 2LF. Herefordshire has handled 3,304 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker than Herefordshire's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 97 applications across Mortimer. We hold 2,988 applications in total for the SY8 postcode area.

95% of listed building consent applications at Herefordshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SY8 2LF
Application type
Listed Building Consent

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Herefordshire

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