Dunfield House
DUNFIELD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301278
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Dunfield House
- Statutory Address:
- DUNFIELD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301278
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Dunfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUNFIELD 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:
- DUNFIELD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lower Harpton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 27375 58443
Details
LOWER HARBTON CP - SO 25 NE
3/10 Dunfield House
19.8.53 - II
Country house, now conference dentre. Late C19 but incorporating the fabric of a late C17 house. Coursed and squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, part Welsh slate and part stone slate roofs. Irregular plan with main range aligned east/west facing south, main central entrance flanked by projecting cross-wings, several decorative axial stacks. Two storeys, attics and cellars. South front: string courses which continue over windows as labels, decorative bargeboards to gables, assymetrical arrangement to elevation with 1:1:1:1:1:1 bays, each with single vertical glazing bar sash windows, projecting canted gable ends to cross-wings flanking entrance in second and fifth bay entrance with lean-to single-storey porch immediately to left of projecting wing to right with shouldered head to outer doorway and flanking lights, inner 4-panelled door. Interior retains a mutilated late C17 staircase with turned balusters and square newels. Also fragments of C15 glass in the staircase window. (RCHM, Vol III, p 63).
Listing NGR: SO2737558443
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150268
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 63
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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