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HEREFORD

SO5139NW HARLEY COURT
683-1/7/179 (East side)
10/06/52 Nos.4 AND 5

GV II

Houses. Early C18 front to C17 core.
Brick; hipped slate roof with 3 parallel gables; diagonal
brick ridge stack.
3 storeys and cellar; 2-window range: mid C19, 8/8 sashes
under segmental arches; storeyband; 4/8 sash and 6/6 casement;
parapet. Entrances to left and right: 6 fielded-panel doors
and ornamental rectangular fanlights, with moulded
architraves, under simple moulded flat hoods; flanking 2, 8/8
sashes under segmental arches; storeyband. Wing to right, with
altered roofline has large 8/8 sash with Gothic glazed head
under semicircular arch, with, to left, blocked opening, and,
to right, buttress; 2 blocked openings over; continuing
storeyband; brick lateral stack. Left returned side: stucco
with 2 (C19 and C20) casements to 2nd floor.
INTERIOR: No.5: mutilated late C18 dogleg staircase with
turned balusters and panelled dado. 2nd floor: three 2-panel
doors with architraves. 1st floor: 5, 2-panel doors; one
4-panel door, with architraves; exposed timber-frame with
collared truss and moulded wall plate. Ground floor: C17
panelling and panelling doors; C14 hall with moulded
tie-beams, archbraces and pierced cusped windbraces, billeted
plates; four 4-panel doors with architrave; 2-panel door with
architrave. Cellar: plank doors; exposed close-studding; oak
steps; cobbled floors; medieval stonework; alcoved stack base.
No.4: early C19 splat baluster dogleg staircase with panelled
dado. 2nd floor: early C19 fireplace; 4-panel doors. 1st
floor: probable timber-framing; 4-panel doors. Ground floor:
2-panel doors; 4-panel doors; panelled dado; C19 corner
fireplace. Cellar: partly stone-lined; timber-framing.
(Proceedings of the Woolhope Club 1919).

Listing NGR: SO5113439852