Description

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

External Links

• The Mynde at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17530313

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)