Description

HEREFORD

SO54SW AYLESTONE HILL
683-1/3/12 (South East side)
No.76
Athelstan Hall

GV II

House, now Technical College Annexe and offices. Mid C19.
Dressed stone; hipped Welsh slate roof; various dressed stone
stacks with ashlar detailing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar; 3-window range: 2/2 sashes
with cambered heads in moulded stone architraves; stone
brackets to eaves.
Central entrance: portico with entablature and balustrade on
plain and fluted columns; 6 fielded panel door and blocked
overlight; flanked by 2/2 sashes, with moulded hoods on
scrolled consoles; quoins; moulded plinth.
Right returned side: 3, 2/2 sashes, over sash and canted bay
with casements.
Left returned side: 2/2 sashes; stucco service-wing.
Rear: central entrance: 6 fielded panel double doors with side
lights; tripartite window with 1/1: 2/2: 1/1 sashes over;
flanked by 2/2 sashes.
INTERIOR: stone dogleg stairs with cast-iron balusters and
moulded rail; to rear, winder stair with stick and turned
balusters.
Attic: winder stair. 1st floor: 4-panel doors with
architraves; ceiling cornices; beaded arches; tiled utilities;
slate fireplaces; wood fireplace; skirtings; marble fireplace;
radiators; architraves to windows.
Ground floor: tiled utilities; 4-panel doors with architraves;
C20 wood fireplace; cornices, friezes and ceiling roses;
marble fireplaces; panelled arch to bay; alcoves;
picture-rails; coloured glass screen and double doors to hall.
Cellar: 6-panel door; two 4-panel doors; plank doors; brick
floors; stone and brick-lined; brick vaults.

Listing NGR: SO5226240931

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585030

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Recommended Books

• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)