Hergest Court
HERGEST COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081747
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Hergest Court
- Statutory Address:
- HERGEST COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081747
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Hergest Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- HERGEST COURT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HERGEST COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kington Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 28141 55419
Details
KINGTON RURAL CP HERGEST SO 25 NE
3/5 Hergest Court
19.8.53
GV . II*
Manor house, now farmhouse and sub-divided into two tenements. Reputed to have been built c1430 for Thomas Vaughan; on the site of an earlier house but largely remodelled during the C17 and C18 and further altered during the C20. Part sandstone rubble and part close-studded timber framing with wattle and daub infill, part shingle clad (to south-east side) Welsh slate roof. L-plan with wings aligned south-west/north-east and north-west/south-east adjoining to north-east, entrance and stair turret in angle of L, lateral and end stacks. Two storeys with cellars and attics. Entrance front: shingle clad face of wing to left with one 3-light casement window to right; two 3-light casements windows to ground floor, stair turret projects in angle to right with one single-light and one 2-light casement window below to left return, below the gable of the stair turret is a pro- jection with a lean-to roof, this has a 2-light casement window to the left return and has a stone doorway with a two-centred head and chamfered jambs. This is obscured by a C20 lean-to porch, the stone south-west face of the second wing to the right has two 3-light casement windows. The close-studded timber-framing is revealed to the north-west front. Interior: the south-west wing retains sections of late C16 or early C17 panelling with a decorative enriched frieze to the panelling in an upper room. The early C17 staircase has decorative splat balusters, square moulded newels with shaped terminals and moulded handrails. The interior of the south-east wing was not inspected but the RCHM mentions a stone fireplace of c1500. The Welsh bard Lewis Glyn Cothi described the court as having eight strong buildings. These were demolished during the C18. It is also reputed that the "Red Book of Hergest" was found here from which the Mabinogion were compiled. The court was originally surrounded by a moat. (RCHM, Vol III, p 94).
Listing NGR: SO2814155419
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150263
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 94
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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