Court of Hill
COURT OF HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383566
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Court of Hill
- Statutory Address:
- COURT OF HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383566
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Court of Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT OF HILL
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:
- COURT OF HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nash
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 60149 72975
Details
NASH
SO67SW Court of Hill
582-1/5/155
12/11/54
GV II*
Manor house. Medieval origins, rebuild dated 1683 with
alterations early C19 and 1927. Brick with ashlar quoins and
dressings, and cyma-moulded ashlar string course at first
floor and below cornice. Hipped plain-tile roof with deep
concave plastered cornice below deep eaves. 3 large brick
lateral stacks with cluster of spurred shafts and caps, ridge
stack with 3 diagonal shafts to east extension ridge. Original
rectangular double-pile plan with later extension wings to
rear.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey and attic. South front is a 2-storey,
7-window range with restored wood mullion and transom windows
with ashlar surrounds. Central glazed panelled door with
ashlar surround, flat gauged ashlar lintel with central carved
console keystone, ashlar tablet with armorial bearings over,
dated 1683. 4 hipped dormers with 2-light casements.
West side: 4-window range, with 3 windows blocked, leaving
single mullion and transom window to left. Similar window to
2-storey extension to left of original west side. Venetian
window with ashlar surround to right at ground floor with left
side covered by later projecting single-storey entrance
extension with flat roof and parapet. Extension with ashlar
entrance door surround flanked by tall multi-pane windows with
Venetian window to left. 2 hipped dormers with 2-light
casements.
East side: 4-window range of mullion and transom windows with
that to left now blocked and that to right altered with raised
head. Ground floor to left covered by later projecting
single-storey bay window with crenellated parapet. 2 hipped
dormers with 2-light casements. Stone rubble wing to right of
2-storey, 2-window range of restored 6/6 sashes with flat
lintels, single hipped dormer.
Rear: 2-window range of mullion and transom windows with
gauged brick lintels with brick hoodmould over, covered to
right with 2-storey brick west extension bay, covered at the
centre with small 2-storey brick projection and to left with
2-storey and attic stone rubble wing continued with
single-storey and attic stone rubble wing.
INTERIOR: C17 staircase with open well and heavy balusters
with diagonal boarding covering the tread ends. Restored and
reset C17 panelling and overmantel in former entrance hall.
Early C19 coffered ceiling with naturalistic foliate
ornamented friezes.
The arms over the former south entrance are reputed to be of
the builder of the 1683 work, Andrew Hill, with his arms
impaling those of his wife Anne Powys of Henley near Ludlow.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire:
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: 1958-: 115).
Listing NGR: SO6014972975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483998
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 115
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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