Pudleston Court

PUDLESTON COURT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1247967
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:
Pudleston Court
Statutory Address:
PUDLESTON COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1247967
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1991
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Jan-1992
List Entry Name:
Pudleston Court
Statutory Address 1:
PUDLESTON 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PUDLESTON COURT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Pudlestone
National Grid Reference:
SO 55961 59278

Details

In the entry for:- PUDLESTONE SO 55 NE Pudlestone Court 10/10000 II The address shall be amended to read:

SO 55 NE PUDLESTONE 10/10000 Pudleston Court II

------------------------------------ The following building shall be added to the list:-

PUDLESTONE SO 55 NE 10/10000 Pudlestone Court II Country house. 1846-47 by Brearley of Liverpool for Elias Chadwick. Coursed pink sandstone rubble with grey dressed quoins. Slate roofs with embattled parapets. Stone stacks with grouped octagonal ashlar shafts. PLAN: Principal rooms arranged around large central hall entered on north side through a porte-cochere and vestibule with a tower above and with a service wing on the west (right) side. Castellated Tudor-Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical north front with 3-storey tower to left of centre with ashlar porte-cochere with 4-centred arches, polygonal turrets and battlements with shield on front. Set back on left is blind wall with loop on first floor and corbelled octagonal turret in the angle. Slightly recessed bay on right of tower with 2 windows on ground floor and oriel above with moulded corbel, battlements and narrow side lights. Moulded stone mullion-transom windows with leaded panes and hoodmoulds and moulded string courses. Service wing set back on right (west), 2 storeys and attic, and with tall clock tower and walled service yard in front with arched entrance and coal-house on higher ground level to west. East garden front: 1:3:1 bays, end bays project as squat towers, the right-hand with 2-storey canted bay window, the left with shallow bay window on ground floor. Rear elevation (S), recessed centre, wing on left with octagonal corner turret and small embattled garden pavilion at end of wall on left; small C20 extension on right. INTERIOR: largely unaltered C19 interior. Large galleried hall with panelled ceiling with pendants and elaborate Jacobethan chimneypiece in inqlenook. Classical portal at foot of stairs. Secondary stairs and many other features including good chimneypieces, panelling, cornices, doors and other joinery etc. SOURCE: Buildings of England, Ancient Monuments Society.

Listing NGR: SO5596159278

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
429457
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963)
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society in Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, ()

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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