TITLEY COURT AND ADJOINING STABLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081467
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1953
List Entry Name:: TITLEY COURT AND ADJOINING STABLE
Statutory Address:: TITLEY COURT AND ADJOINING STABLE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081467
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1953
List Entry Name:: TITLEY COURT AND ADJOINING STABLE
Statutory Address 1:: TITLEY COURT AND ADJOINING STABLE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TITLEY COURT AND ADJOINING STABLE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Titley
National Grid Reference:: SO 33072 59621

Details

SO 35 NW TITLEY CP TITLEY

7/53 Titley Court and adjoining stable

19.8.53 - II

Country house and adjoining stable. Dates from the C17 but extensively remodelled during C18 and mid- to late C19, late C18 stable block. Possibly originally a timber-framed house but has been completely remodelled in sandstone rubble and brick, with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof, sand- stone rubble stable block with ashlar dressings and part Welsh slate and part stone slate roof. Irregular plan, generally L-shaped with many gables running across the line of the two wings, several axial stacks, some with decorative grouped shafts, two-storey projecting porch to west side. Further entrance to centre of south wing. Stable block aligned east/west adjoins to east of west wing. Two storeys, attics and cellars. South front: crenellated turret at corner to left and six uneven gables to entrance front, central gable with small semi-circular window in gable, two-centred arched head to first floor opening with glazing bar sash window and decorative glazing in head, two- centred arched head to doorway with part-glazed door with two similar shaped lights. This central bay is flanked to the left by a gabled two-storey and attic canted bay with central pointed arched head to attic window and square headed openings flanking central pointed window with glazing bar sash windows, plain sash windows to the ground floor; further to the left is a gabled bay with a pair of decorative pointed windows to the attic and two square headed openings with glazing bar sash windows to the first floor, these windows have a panel of mock glazing fixed above echoeing the decorative glazing of the central pointed windows of the previous two bays; 4-light window to ground floor; paired semi-circular headed windows to the turret. A similar canted bay of two storeys with attics flanks the entrance bay to the right, this has square-headed stone mullioned and transomed windows of three lights, one similar 2-light window below each of the two remaining gables to the right, here the ground floor projects forward with two canted bays and has a blocked crenellated parapet and plain sash windows; mainly decorative bargeboards to gables. The west side has square headed windows with 2- and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. The stable block to the rear has a central projecting gable, capped by a decorative octagonal lantern, dentilled eaves cornice, pointed arched head to central window with decorative glazing, two segmental headed carriage entrances. Clock face in gable. The interior was inaccessible at the time of resurvey during April 1986,.but is said to retain the fine late C17 plastered ceiling divided into nine panels by heavily moulded and enriched trabeations with decorative floral and folial detail in the panels, there are also two fine C17 overmantels. (RCHM, Vol III, p 191; BoE, p 300).

Listing NGR: SO3307259621

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Legacy System number:: 149192
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 191
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 300

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.