Lower Eaton House
LOWER EATON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1099671
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Eaton House
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER EATON HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1099671
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Eaton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER EATON HOUSE
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:
- LOWER EATON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eaton Bishop
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 44829 40248
Details
EATON BISHOP CP LOWER EATON SO 44 SW 1/70 Lower Eaton House
GV II House. Mid-C18 with mid- to late C19 alterations and additions. Brick with Bath stone stacks. Cellar and two storeys. Rectangular plan aligned north-west/south-east with subsidiary block to south-east. South-west elevation has 2:3:2 windows, C19 plate glass sashes with dressed shouldered heads and chamfered jambs. Ground floor windows have in addition shafts with fillets and dog-tooth decoration to heads. Gabled centre part has brick relieving arches with 2-centred heads and stone Lombard frieze with trefoil-headed corbels. Wings have cornices with dog-tooth decoration. C19 porch has semi-circular arch with shafts and foliated capitals. Joggled brickwork to sides of arch, two-leaved door with six panels to each leaf and spherical lamp on wrought iron bracket. Stone foliated frieze. One shouldered window beneath 2-centred super-arch to each return. Mid-C20 doorway in lowered window opening to right with six-panelled door and mid- C20 canopy. Attached to either side is a brick quadrant wall, that to the right with a steel 2-light C20 casement. To the rear right behind the quadrant wall is a large two-storey C19 wing. Rear elevation has 3 + 3:3:3 windows. Upper floor of left part has trefoil-headed openings, beneath which is a canted ground floor bay window. Centre of main part has loggia with three trefoil-headed arches supported on columns. The spandrels have open trefoils. Above are four heads in roundels. Within the loggia are four turquoise plaques depicting putti in various situations including pyramids, steam engine locomotives with punkahs and in a jungle with a tiger. South elevation has trefoil-headed first floor windows and a four-bay wooden conservatory, probably late C19 with pedestals supporting five Corinthian pilasters. Interior has oak two-flight C18 newel staircase with turned balusters incorporating square lower sections. Ceiling above staircase has egg and dart mouldings to cornice. Flanking walls to staircase have two eared surrounds, also with egg and dart decoration, presumably to accommodate former paintings. Six-panelled C18 doors. Art Nouveau brass lamp to landing. Early central heating panels beneath several windows and in staircase lobby have marble tops and cast iron lattice grills with twisted columns. Principal central room has C18 cornice, mid- to late C19 plaster fireplace, C19 poly- chromatic tiled floors, glazed pine front door and late C19 curtain rods with brass concealed runners on their undersides. Library to north has C18 panel- ling with later insertions and large late C19 curtain rod with huge carved wooden garlands to each end. (BoE, p 126).
Listing NGR: SO4482940248
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 155370
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 126
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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