Poston House
POSTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1225155
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Poston House
- Statutory Address:
- POSTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1225155
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Poston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POSTON 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:
- POSTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Vowchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 35985 37924
Details
SO 33 NE VOWCHURCH CP
3/144 Poston House - - II*
Casino, now dwelling. Probably c1765 with c1882 alterations and extensions. By Sir William Chambers for Sir Edward Boughton. Finely coursed rubble, sandstone dressings, brick and stucco, slate roof, rectangular roof light to central hall, stacks to each side and to right of centre. Rotunda with north-facing tetrastyle Tuscan portico with c1890 wings attached to east and west. North facade: columns of portico are stuccoed brick, pediment is wooden with alternating dentils along its three sides. Six-panelled C18 door with enriched wrought-iron frieze above. The late C19 wings have 2 storeys, they are gabled to outer ends with paired sashes under segmental heads with hammer-dressed keystones. The rear elevation is 7 windows wide and dominated by the central rotunda with a 12-pane sash to centre and one 8-pane sash to each side. Interior: entrance lobby has C19 dog-leg pine staircase with gallery to rear; the cellar contains a game-larder with iron racks and a passage- way around the foot of the rotunda. The inside of the rotunda is entered through an appropriately curved door, to the right is a late C18 wooden chimney piece with a panel in the wall above; to either side of the entrance door is a plain niche with enriched border; opposite the chimney piece is a 4-light display cupboard also with a panel above. The dome is plain and shallow above a thin frieze. Lewis Carroll's brother, who was a vicar of Vowchurch, had a daughter who married into the family then living at Poston House. (Colvin).
Listing NGR: SO3598537924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421412
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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