The Mynde
THE MYNDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1348825
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Mynde
- Statutory Address:
- THE MYNDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1348825
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Mynde
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MYNDE
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:
- THE MYNDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Much Dewchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 47068 29726
Details
MUCH DEWCHURCH CP - SO 42 NE 9/94 The Mynde 20.10.52 GV I House. C15 and C16, remodelled in early C18 and re-cast on east, north and south sides by William Atkinson in early C19. Sandstone rubble and brick, stuccoed to north, east and south. Hipped Welsh slate roofs and brick stacks. Rectangular plan with rear projecting wings to west and main front to east. Cellar and three storeys. East elevation has 2:5:2 windows, glazing bar sashes. Slightly advanced centre and porch with two pairs of unfluted Doric columns and entablature. Oak door with eight fielded panels. Stucco has ashlar lining. Moulded cornice and parapet. North elevation has 7½ windows, glazing bar sashes with cambered heads. West elevation has six-window central part with glazing bar sashes. The top storey has but three sashes symmetrically placed. To left side of main central part is a C17 doorway with moulded pediment and jambs. Four-centre arch with 8-paned transom light. Six-panelled fielded door. Beneath the pediment is a frieze with triglyphs. Beyond the jambs and 4-centred arch the surrounds are rusticated. One hipped projecting wing to each side of central part with small square high-set openings, one to the right blocked. Interior has large two-storey hall behind east front decorated with giant Corinthian pilasters and coved plaster ceiling with three allegorical panels, probably c1730. Fireplace has overmantel with arms and trophies in plaster, inscribed NIL ADMIRARI. Slate and stone floor. Between the pilasters are profile busts of English Kings. Several ground floor panelled rooms. One has early C17 blind arcading above two obliquely set early C18 fireplaces. Another room has rich late C17 or C18 fielded panelling with pedimented door surrounds and eared architraves. Opposite one of these doors is a matching pedimented bookcase. Main staircase is open well, late C17, with two flights and a half landing, two bobbin balusters to each tread with corresponding half- balusters to dado. Moulded handrail runs out in four balusters at ground floor. Above the staircase is fluted coving. Second stairs are c1730 with three cantilevered flights, moulded on the underside with twisted balusters, newels as Doric columns and carved tread ends. The ceiling above has consoles and egg and dart decoration to cornice. Several upstairs rooms have early C18 fireplaces and re-used C17 panelling. (BoE, p 259; RCHM, Vol I, p 50-1).
Listing NGR: SO4706829726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 155394
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 50-1
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 259
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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