Burton Court
BURTON COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081945
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Burton Court
- Statutory Address:
- BURTON COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081945
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Burton Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURTON 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:
- BURTON COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eardisland
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 42284 57190
Details
SO 45 NW EARDISLAND CP -
4/43 Burton Court
20.2.53
GV II*
Country house. C14, remodelled.c1808, restored c1865 by F Kempson and again in 1912 by Clough Williams Ellis. Timber-frame, clad and extended in stuccoed brick and ashlar under a tile roof. North-east front has a mid-C19 cross-wing to right, then the C14 great hall, with C20 porch and range to left. C19 range to right has a segmental plan, two-storey bay window, with three plate glass sashes. Hall to left has two windows of early C20, that to right of 3 by 3 lights, that to left four lights wide by three high, both with stone mullion and transoms. The porch to the left is also early C20 with a shaped gable bearing a sun-burst design over a moulded cornice. The first floor has stone cross window over the inscription "PLC & EEC". The entrance is flanked by Doric pilasters rising to a moulded entablature in the centre of which is set an elliptical window. The entrance below has a moulded architrave and semi-circular head. The panelled door with its semi-circular head has a centrally placed winged cherub's head. Interior has a semi-circular plan stair hall of the early C19 (date of 1808 on a bell to rear) with cantilevered stair which has a wrought iron balustrade. Great hall roof of five bays with arch-braced collar trusses. Two tiers of purlins with cusped wind-braces. Lateral stack on rear wall has an overmantel with two tiers of arcaded panelling and bearing the date 1654. (RCHM, 3, p 47, no 3; BoE, p 120; Guide Book, 1986 edition).
Listing NGR: SO4228457190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149825
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 47
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 120
Other
Burton Court Eardisland Guide Book, 1986,
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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