Berrington House

HEREFORD

SO5039NE ST NICHOLAS STREET 683-1/2/251 (North side) 10/06/52 No.2 Berrington House

GV II*

House, now offices. c1635, refronted 1745. Brick; timber-frame; hipped Welsh slate roof; brick stack to left side. E-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 4-window range: 2/2 sashes in moulded cases under painted stone lintels with moulded cornices; brick band under similar windows; brick band under moulded wood eaves. Doorway to centre left: C20 half-glazed door, recessed under moulded lintel with moulded stone flat hood on curved brackets, and fluted pilasters with curved capitals; two C19 sashes to left, one C19 sash to right; brick band over. Lead rainwater goods to right side, head embossed TLI 1745. INTERIOR: C17 open-well staircase with turned balusters, moulded string and rail, and pierced pendants; decorated plasterwork soffits; bolection moulded cornice to staircase. 2nd floor: 3 moulded 3-panel doors; 2 panelling doors; plank door; architraves; ceiling cornices; panelled risers and reveals to windows; C18 fireplaces with bolection mouldings; panelled dado; C18 wall cupboard; bolection-moulded architrave. 1st floor: 3- and 6-panel doors with architraves; C18 fireplaces, one with foliage decoration; C18 panelled room with cornice; cornice; C19 fireplace. Ground floor: polychrome tiled hall; C19 panelled dado; 6-panel door and architraves; C18 fireplace; panelled room with moulded ceiling beams; (to front) panelled room with chamfered ceiling beams, and moulded plasterwork ceiling with figures; 6-panel door; cornice to hall. (RCHME).

Listing NGR: SO5079139814