4 And 5, Harley Court

HEREFORD

SO5139NW HARLEY COURT 683-1/7/179 (East side) 10/06/52 Nos.4 AND 5

GV II

Houses. Early C18 front to C17 core. Brick; hipped slate roof with 3 parallel gables; diagonal brick ridge stack. 3 storeys and cellar; 2-window range: mid C19, 8/8 sashes under segmental arches; storeyband; 4/8 sash and 6/6 casement; parapet. Entrances to left and right: 6 fielded-panel doors and ornamental rectangular fanlights, with moulded architraves, under simple moulded flat hoods; flanking 2, 8/8 sashes under segmental arches; storeyband. Wing to right, with altered roofline has large 8/8 sash with Gothic glazed head under semicircular arch, with, to left, blocked opening, and, to right, buttress; 2 blocked openings over; continuing storeyband; brick lateral stack. Left returned side: stucco with 2 (C19 and C20) casements to 2nd floor. INTERIOR: No.5: mutilated late C18 dogleg staircase with turned balusters and panelled dado. 2nd floor: three 2-panel doors with architraves. 1st floor: 5, 2-panel doors; one 4-panel door, with architraves; exposed timber-frame with collared truss and moulded wall plate. Ground floor: C17 panelling and panelling doors; C14 hall with moulded tie-beams, archbraces and pierced cusped windbraces, billeted plates; four 4-panel doors with architrave; 2-panel door with architrave. Cellar: plank doors; exposed close-studding; oak steps; cobbled floors; medieval stonework; alcoved stack base. No.4: early C19 splat baluster dogleg staircase with panelled dado. 2nd floor: early C19 fireplace; 4-panel doors. 1st floor: probable timber-framing; 4-panel doors. Ground floor: 2-panel doors; 4-panel doors; panelled dado; C19 corner fireplace. Cellar: partly stone-lined; timber-framing. (Proceedings of the Woolhope Club 1919).

Listing NGR: SO5113439852