Description:

Sale particulars for Poston Court Estate, Vowchurch, [previously known as Poston House Estate] were issued by the agent, Knight Frank in 2022.

The sale particulars describe a property of considerable historical interest that is positioned to command wide-ranging views over the Golden Valley and the Black Mountains. Alongside the main house are two further houses; Poston Lodge and Poston Cottage.

Poston Court is a classic country house dating from the eighteenth century that has been extensively renovated in recent years. Originally built as a casino, its features include a reception hall, drawing room, library, circular dining room, fully equipped modern kitchen, media room, boot room, wine cellar and three bedroom suites. Outside there is an orangery and summer house, tennis court and swimming pool.

Poston Lodge is a stone-clad house with three bedrooms, and the separate Poston Cottage contains four more bedrooms. There is also a range of other outbuildings including a studio/ home office, barns and garages.

The Court is approached by a long drive through parkland and woods extending to some 266 acres.

The property is listed Grade II*. The entry in the National Heritage List for England is public sector information, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 for reproduction here as follows:

*Casino, now dwelling. Probably c1765 with c1882 alterations and extensions. By Sir William Chambers for Sir Edward Boughton. Finely coursed rubble, sandstone dressings, brick and stucco, slate roof, rectangular roof light to central hall, stacks to each side and to right of centre. Rotunda with north-facing tetrastyle Tuscan portico with c1890 wings attached to east and west. North facade: columns of portico are stuccoed brick, pediment is wooden with alternating dentils along its three sides. Six-panelled C18 door with enriched wrought-iron frieze above. The late C19 wings have 2 storeys, they are gabled to outer ends with paired sashes under segmental heads with hammer-dressed keystones. The rear elevation is 7 windows wide and dominated by the central rotunda with a 12-pane sash to centre and one 8-pane sash to each side. Interior: entrance lobby has C19 dog-leg pine staircase with gallery to rear; the cellar contains a game-larder with iron racks and a passage- way around the foot of the rotunda. The inside of the rotunda is entered through an appropriately curved door, to the right is a late C18 wooden chimney piece with a panel in the wall above; to either side of the entrance door is a plain niche with enriched border; opposite the chimney piece is a 4-light display cupboard also with a panel above. The dome is plain and shallow above a thin frieze.

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A full copy of the 2022 sale particulars is not held on this website for copyright and intellectual property reasons but can be viewed on the Wayback Machine Internet Archive