Dingwood Park Farmhouse

LEDBURY RURAL CP A417 (east side) SO 73 NW

4/63 Dingwood Park Farmhouse

18.11.52

• II*

Small country house. Circa 1690s. Red brick and hipped plain tiled roof; panelled brick stacks supported on broad full-height angle projections. 2 storeys and cellars. Five window, 8-pane sash windows, the central first floor window is narrower, all in flush frames; 2-light windows with chamfered mullions to the cellar. Chamfered stone string over ground floor and stone weathering to the plinth. Central 6-panel door under a fanlight and in a doorcase with an open pediment on brackets. Between the outer first floor windows are two stone cartouches of arms. Setback kitchen wing at right under a hipped roof and with a single stone 2-light cross window on each floor. The side and rear elevations have stone 2-light cross windows in chamfered mullions and surrounds and some sash windows. Interior: Retains very fine plasterwork. Hall: ceiling of 2 rectangular compartments with an egg and dart cornice. Dining Room (right): bolection moulded stone fire surround and curved brick fireback; the ceiling is divided into 3 rectangular panels by moulded beams and the panels are enriched with a wreath of fruit and flowers, floral sprays and branches of oak and bay. Drawing Room (left) formerly included the hallway; fireplace as Dining Room; ceiling of 6 plain coffered panels, egg and dart moulded cornice. Study (rear left): 3 panels to ceiling, divided by moulded beams and enriched with a wreath of oak and a central oval panel of a rose surrounded by sprays. First floor right: ceiling of 3 panels and a fireplace as the Dining Room. Staircase with panelled dado, moulded handrail, closed string and bulbous turned balusters. (RCHM, Vol II, 1932).

Listing NGR: SO7208535212