Gatley Park

Details

AYMESTREY CP LEINTHALL EARLS SO 46 NW

2/8 Gatley Park

11.6.59

GV II*

Country house. 1630s for Sir Sampson Ewer, extended and restored 1894- 1907, partly by J D Coleridge. Brick with some stone dressings on a coursed rubble plinth with stone tile roofs. 1630s block square plan with a central stack which has nine octagonal brick shafts, extended to north-east and south-west by wings in C19. North-west front: main block set forward of later wings is of two storeys with attic lit by 3-light casements in two stone coped gables with ball finials (the left-hand gable is a C19 restoration). The central projecting porch has a C19 pierced strapwork stone parapet, brick quoins and band. This main block also has brick quoins and band. 1 + 1 + 1 windows, the outer two of four lights, the central one of three lights, all C19 with segmental heads. The central entrance has a segmental arch with a stone cartouche of arms set in a small niche above. The entrance has a wooden architrave with Doric pilasters, and a two-leaf C17 studded door. Extensions to left and right are in a similar style of irregular design. The range to left con- tains the service rooms and a billiard room. Interior of porch lined with C17 oak panelling, inner door has a moulded and stopped frame with a four- centred arch under a square head, with foliated spandrels and decorative strap hinges. Entrance hall fills whole width of C17 block, but was originally two rooms, stone fireplace to left of centre has moulded jambs and four-centred head. The three-bay overmantel, divided by pilasters, has three arcaded panels. The cast iron fire back is dated 1639. Sitting room (to south corner) has early C18 painted bolection moulded panelling. The C17 stone fireplace has chamfered jambs and a four-centred head, with a cast iron fireback inscribed "SE/ 1637" (the 3 is reversed). The over- mantel contains an early C18 painting of the house in its landscape, with a fox hunt in the foreground. The staircase in the room to the east corner of the house-is C19 on the ground floor. Above this level it is of well- form with heavy turned balusters, moulded rails and newels with moulded terminals. Main front bedroom has a bolection moulded fireplace with two- panel overmantel, pilastered with enriched frames to the panels. To west corner of first floor rising to attics is a newel staircase with solid oak treads, which originally reached the ground floor. (RCHM, 3, pp 11-12, no 3; BoE, p 221; Reid, P: Burke's and Savill's Guide to Country Houses, Vol II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, 1980, pp 29-30)o

Listing NGR: SO4488068462

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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 11 12
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 221
Reid, P, Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, Vol. 2, (1980), 29 30

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,

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