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© Mr Gary Were ARPS
IoE Number:
153958
Location:
COURTFIELD AND ADJOINING QUADRANT WALL WITH COACHWAY ENTRANCE,
WELSH BICKNOR, HEREFORDSHIRE, HEREFORDSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Gary Were ARPS
Date Photographed:
10 July 2002
Date listed:
18 May 1969
Date of last amendment:
18 May 1969
Grade
II
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SO 51 NE WELSH BICKNOR CP COURTFIELD
6/164 Courtfield and adjoining
quadrant wall with
18/5/69 coachway entrance
GV II
House and adjoining quadrant wall with coach arch and pedestrian doorway.
Early C19 rebuilding of earlier house, altered C20. Rendered stone,
slate, hipped roofs. Irregular plan, house broadly rectangular
two rooms deep with central entrance and stairwell with eastern rear
wing extending to north incorporating fabric of earlier house, chapel (qv)
adjoins to north end, quadrant wall adjoins to west return of house.
Regency stucco mansion: two storeys, cellars and attics; string course,
frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course, 2:3:2 windows; C20 2-light
casement windows, central three in forward break with pediment, Ionic
pilasters piercing string course on implied plinth to first floor,
central forward projecting glazed semi-circular porch, Doric columns,
bucrania frieze and cornice with iron railings above forming balcony.
Partly-glazed door, semi-circular headed blank arches with impost band
to ground floor of outer bays, glazing bar sash windows are retained to
rear. Interior: altered, entrance hall with fine stuccoed ceiling ornament
and geometrical staircase, isolated C17 splat balusters remain in balustrad-
ing of staircase in rear wing. Former seat of the Vaughan family, it is
now the retreat of the Mill Hill Brothers. Henry V was nursed here possibly
by Lady Margaret Montague. The house was remodelled c1805 by William Miles
of Ebley near Stroud (Glos.).