Elgar Court
27, HAMPTON PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187687
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Elgar Court
- Statutory Address:
- 27, HAMPTON PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187687
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Elgar Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27, HAMPTON PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- ELGAR COURT, 1-4, HAMPTON PARK ROAD
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:
- 27, HAMPTON PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- ELGAR COURT, 1-4, HAMPTON PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hereford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 52586 39231
Details
SO53NW
683-1/4/219
21/11/90
HEREFORD
HAMPTON PARK ROAD(North side)No.27
Nos 1-4 (cons) Elgar Court(Formerly Listed as:HAMPTON PARK ROAD No.27 Elgar Court)
GII*
Formerly known as: Plas Gwyn HAMPTON PARK ROAD.House,now flats. Mid C19,divided into flats in late C20.Red brick,stuccoed to south and west elevations;hipped slate roof with brackets to deep eaves;stuccoed stacks with moulded cornices and panelled sides.Double-depth plan with two south front rooms,side entrance to axial hall passage and stairs.Former dining room to rear left.The service rooms were in the basement.The stairs have been removed and the left(west)rooms were divided when the house was converted into flats. Italianate style.Two storeys,attic and basement.Two:two window south front,right-hand breaks forward.Wooden trellis and tented-roof verandah on ground floor and basement,canted on right around bay window.Ground floor French casements,first floor sashes with segmental pediments on consoles,pair of sashes on right under one pediment.Moulded strings at sill levels.Flat-roof dormers above break eaves,and have moulded architraves.Left-hand west return:verandah continues to central porch,with stuccoed square columns and entablature,two:one:two windows above,right-hand blind,two dormers breaking eaves.Opposite east elevation,brick with one:three windows on ground floor and paired windows above all with stuccoed architraves.Plain brick rear(north)elevation.INTERIOR:only ground floor inspected. Although stairs removed and dining and drawing rooms divided, the moulded plaster cornices and joinery are intact.Front right (SE) room,Elgar's study has not been divided and retains moulded ceiling cornice with oval medallion frieze,but the chimneypiece is a later replacement.HISTORICAL NOTE:Plas Gwyn was the home of the composer Sir Edward Elgar from 1904 to 1912.He moved to Plas Gwyn at the beginning of his rise to popularity and here he wrote many of his best known works,including Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos.3 and 4,Introduction and Allegro for Strings,The Kingdom,Wand of Youth Suites 1 and 2,Symphonies Nos.1 and 2 and the Violin Concerto.(Wulfstan-Atkins E:The Elgar Atkins friendship:1984-).
Listing NGR: SO5336940202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 372356
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wulfstan, A E, The Elgar Atkins friendship, (1984)
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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