Junior House Of Cathedral School

HEREFORD

SO5139NW CASTLE STREET 683-1/7/89 (North side) 10/06/52 No.1 Junior House of Cathedral School

GV II*

House, now school. C18 with C19 alterations. Painted stucco; hipped slate roof; painted stucco end stacks with mouldings. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 6-window range: 12-light sashes in moulded architraves with pads and moulded pediments; sill band with corbelled sills under 9-light sashes in moulded architraves; a band and 2 rows of modillions to moulded cornice. Modillioned cornice to flat portico on square columns, containing 8-panel door in moulded case, under raised moulded hood, flanked by 12-light sashes in moulded architraves; to either side, two, 12-light sashes with moulded shouldered architraves under pads and moulded hoods; moulded band and sill band with chamfered quoins. Rear elevation has canted bay window. INTERIOR: C19(?) open-well staircase with moulded string and rail and barley sugar twist balusters; acorn pendants; margin-glazed Gothic stairwell light; bolection moulded niche. Relict C18 dogleg staircase with splat balusters. 2nd floor: 4-panel doors; C19 fireplace. 1st floor: cornices; C18 fireplace (centre right front); 6-panel doors; bolection moulded architraves; C18 fireplace (right rear); C18 fireplace and moulded dado. Ground floor: front left: C18 fireplace; window shutters; skirting. Front right: panelleing; coved ceiling with rose; fire surround with tiled grate. Centre rear: cornice; ceiling rose; C19 fireplace; moulded architrave. Hall: 6-panel doors with bolection moulded architraves; panelled dado with rail; part-glazed panelled door with fanlight, in arched architrave; cornice; panelled shutters and risers to windows. Stairwell: bolection moulded architraves with Gothic additions; 4-panel doors; 6-panel doors; frieze and cornice. Cellar: flaps by G Bonner of Hereford; stone-lined.

Listing NGR: SO5114939799