Hall, entrance block and unroofed walls attached to south-east and south-west of Michaelchurch Court

Hall, entrance block and unroofed walls attached to south-east and south-west of Michaelchurch Court, Michaelchurch Court

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266945
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: Hall, entrance block and unroofed walls attached to south-east and south-west of Michaelchurch Court
Statutory Address:: Hall, entrance block and unroofed walls attached to south-east and south-west of Michaelchurch Court, Michaelchurch Court

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266945
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: Hall, entrance block and unroofed walls attached to south-east and south-west of Michaelchurch Court
Statutory Address 1:: Hall, entrance block and unroofed walls attached to south-east and south-west of Michaelchurch Court, Michaelchurch Court

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Hall, entrance block and unroofed walls attached to south-east and south-west of Michaelchurch Court, Michaelchurch Court

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Michaelchurch Escley
National Grid Reference:: SO 30864 34372

Details

SO 33 SW 4/77

MICHAELCHURCH ESCLEY Hall, entrance block and unroofed walls attached to south-east and south-west of Michaelchurch Court

GV II Hall and entrance block and attached walls. Dated 1866. By G F Bodley. Coursed stone rubble and stone dressings, slate roof. Remains of E-plan extension to Michaelchurch Court(qv) in re-interpretation of late-Tudor style.

Main south-facing elevation, a roofless ruin with only one wall, partly stands up to wall-tops, entrance stairs and hall to east are roofed, north wall of E-plan demolished and most of cross-walls.

North elevation: (roofless wing) consists of two storey porch between gabled buttresses, approached by steps and entered under moulded four-centred arch surmounted by four rectangular panels in moulded surrounds, above them a four-light mullioned and transomed window. The porch is side-lit by a four-light window to the east under a relieving arch. Entrance is through a twelve-panelled door.

South elevation: four-light mullioned window to left, two storey canted bay window to centre with ten lights to each level, five-light mullioned and transomed window to upper right centre-above string course; right hand gable has six-light mullioned and transomed bay window with four-light windows above. Entrance to east side of left part by four-panelled door in square-headed frame with carved wooden spandrels. Another entrance to west side of right gable by four-panelled door under stone spandrels next to stack with paired shafts. West wall returns to join the Court (qv). East wall has buttresses with off-sets, large stack with coupled shafts, mullioned and transomed windows and a three-panelled door leading into a cellar under a depressed four-centred head.

Interior: machine-made king-post roof supported by arch braces on wooden corbels. Large contemporary fireplace in west wall,deeply moulded chamfered beams for first floor. In the cellar is a dated plaque in Gothic script indicating that Bodley was the architect - "Guido Trafford hunc domum fieri/fecit anno nostra salvis mdccclxvi/Georgio Frederico Bodley archi".

Listing NGR: SO3086434372

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

Legacy System number:: 420194
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.