Courtfield And Adjoining Quadrant Wall With Coachway Entrance

SO 51 NE WELSH BICKNOR CP COURTFIELD 6/164 Courtfield and adjoining quadrant wall with 18/5/69 coachway entrance

GV II

House and adjoining quadrant wall with coach arch and pedestrian doorway. Early C19 rebuilding of earlier house, altered C20. Rendered stone, slate, hipped roofs. Irregular plan, house broadly rectangular two rooms deep with central entrance and stairwell with eastern rear wing extending to north incorporating fabric of earlier house, chapel (qv) adjoins to north end, quadrant wall adjoins to west return of house. Regency stucco mansion: two storeys, cellars and attics; string course, frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course, 2:3:2 windows; C20 2-light casement windows, central three in forward break with pediment, Ionic pilasters piercing string course on implied plinth to first floor, central forward projecting glazed semi-circular porch, Doric columns, bucrania frieze and cornice with iron railings above forming balcony. Partly-glazed door, semi-circular headed blank arches with impost band to ground floor of outer bays, glazing bar sash windows are retained to rear. Interior: altered, entrance hall with fine stuccoed ceiling ornament and geometrical staircase, isolated C17 splat balusters remain in balustrad- ing of staircase in rear wing. Former seat of the Vaughan family, it is now the retreat of the Mill Hill Brothers. Henry V was nursed here possibly by Lady Margaret Montague. The house was remodelled c1805 by William Miles of Ebley near Stroud (Glos.).

Listing NGR: SO5974317482