Sugwas Court And Adjoining Stables

STRETTON SUGWAS CP - SO 44 SE 5/71 Sugwas Court and adjoining stables 20.10.52 (formerly listed as Sugwas Court and Archway in Stables)

GV II

Country house and adjoining stables on site of former palace of Bishops of Hereford. 1792 with later additions and alterations; a late C12 doorway is incorporated in the late C18 stable block, further mid-C19 extension to stables. Sandstone rubble plinth and sandstone rubble to rear of house, brick main elevations; hipped Welsh slate roof; part sandstone rubble and part brick to earlier stable block with brick later extension, Welsh slate roofs. Irregular plan house, generally rectangular with two parallel ranges aligned north/south and main entrance to west front, further wings extend to east at rear, partly enclosing an inner courtyard and southern wing adjoins the stable block; earlier wing aligned east/west and further extended to north and west enclosing stable yard during mid-C19. House: part two and part three storeys with cellars, west front: two storeys, five windows: two glazing bar tripartite sashes with segmental heads flank central semi-circular headed window with decorative glazing bar design, ground floor: one tripartite glazing bar sash window and Jacobean style canted bow window to left and similar tripartite window and bow window to right of doorway with open pediment supported on brackets; semi-circular headed doorway with decorative fanlight and 6-panelled door. South front: two-storey sections flank central pedimented slightly forward break of three storeys, dentilled eaves cornice, string course at second floor of central section. 2:1:2 glazing bar sash windows with rubbed brick flat arched heads, central tripartite glazing bar sash windows with segmental heads. Stables: two-storey part sandstone rubble and part brick earlier block incor- porates semi-circular headed late C12 doorway with chamfered label largely obscured by the later C19 brick stable block which extends to the north. North front of earlier block: two segmental-headed coach openings, square-headed open- ings to upper floor, later addition has decorative lozenge pattern brickwork, three square-headed openings. Interior of later addition reveals the door in north face of the earlier block.

Listing NGR: SO4542340819