Old Court Farmhouse

BOSBURY CP - SO 64 SE

6/44 Old Court Farmhouse (Formerly listed as Old 18.11.52 Court Farmhouse with Gatehouse)

• II

Former manor house of the Bishops of Hereford, now farmhouse. C15 core, with C17 additions, greatly altered during mid-C19. Sandstone earlier wing with brick later alterations, tiled roof. Irregular plan. Early wing aligned east/west facing south, later addition to north extending to east and further to north, large main central stack to south wing, entrances to centre of east front and to rear. Two storeys; east front, gabled end of earlier wing to left with sash window, French casements to the ground floor, later range to right with three windows, tripartite sash window with segmental brick heads, smaller proportions to central window, forward projecting gabled porch with panelled door. Interior: east room of south wing contains fine moulded plaster ceiling, arch braced collar and tie-beam trusses to south wing. (RCHM Vol II, p 18 & 19, item 4; Watkins, J: Duncomb's Collections towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford, Hundred of Radlow 1902, p 27; Rev S Bentley, History and Description of the Parish of Bosbury 1891).

Listing NGR: SO6952143520