Description

DONNINGTON CP - SO 73 SW

6/5 Hiffield, and Service Wings Stables and Coach House 18.11.52

- II

Country house. 1817-18 by R Smirke. Painted stucco; hipped slate roof behind moulded cornice and blocking course in a severe neo-classical style. 2 storeys. Garden elevation of 1:5:1 bays, the end bays are slightly advanced. Projecting portico to centre of 6 attenuated Doric columns with plain entablature and blocking course. Large pane sash windows on ground floor and glazing bar sashes on first, all with outer blind boxes; plain band under first floor windows. Set- back 2 bay wing at left. Entrance elevation of 3 bays: the outer ones are advanced with later C19 canted bays. Central panelled door and projecting porch with Doric columns in antis. To the rear of the house low, single storey service wings lead to a stable block which is of painted brick and has 5 segmental headed glazing bar sash windows and a central segmental headed archway (a later open lean-to extends across the whole facade). Across the yard is a coach house of brick with 2 tall doorways, under a hipped slate roof; garage lean-to at left and shed at right. Interior: of the house has plain plasterwork and marble fireplaces all in a minimal Greek Revival style; staircase with cast iron balustrade and anthemion decoration; in the library is a mid-C18 fireplace from Bowood, Wilts, carved wood with a richly foliated centre tablet set in an acanthus frieze and under an elaborate cornice, supporting pilasters ornamented with husk drops - inserted in 1950's (N Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Herefordshire, 1963).

Listing NGR: SO7240133682

External Links

• Wikidata Q26361643

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