Donnington Hall

DONNINGTON CP - SO 73 SW

6/3 Donnington Hall

18.11.52

GV II

Country house. Mid-C18, extensively remodelled and enlarged in 1909 by an architect called Ogilvy (Pevsner) for Admiral Fanshawe. Rendered with hipped slate roof, modillioned cornice; panelled ashlar stacks. All in an early mid-C18 style. 2 storeys, cellars and attic to garden wing. The entrance front is 4:3:2 bays with glazing bar sash windows throughout. The core of the C18 house is at the left with C18 glazing bar sash windows in exposed boxes. The centre is recessed with the middle bay slightly advanced and surmounted by a pediment with an escutcheon and cartouche. Projecting ashlar porch with Tuscan columns, a broken segmental pediment with arms on a plinth, blocking course surmounted by decorative railings and crested brackets, decorative panelled door in bolection moulded surround and with decorative keystone. Square downpipes with enriched and dated heads. The 2 bays at the right are the side elevation of the garden front which has an elevation of 8 windows with 6 hipped dormers; bays 3 and 6 have glazed doors in Gibbs surrounds and bolection moulded architraves with triple keystones rising up through the pediment; 4 round niches on first floor, moulded surrounds and with stone brackets for statues. Interior: Fine quality wood and plasterwork of 1909 but incor- porating some older fragments. Hall has Tuscan pilasters and triglyph frieze; arcade to staircase and vaulted rear passage. Re-used early C18 staircase witn turned balusters and ramped handrail. Drawing room has central colonnade with marble columns and fine marble fireplace. Library has late C18 fireplace and built-in late C18 bookcases. (N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, 1963).

Listing NGR: SO7080033304