Country United Kingdom Completed 1927 Designations Grade II* listed Town or city Dingestow | Construction started early 1600 Client Samuel Bosanquet Opened 1927 Designation Listed building | |
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Architects John Prichard, Lewis Vulliamy, John Pollard Seddon Similar Clytha Park, Hilston Park, Llanvihangel Court, Piercefield House, The Hendre | ||
Dingestow Court, at Dingestow, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a Victorian country house with earlier origins and later additions. Newman describes it as "one of the county's major houses." The court has been designated a Grade II* listed building since 5 January 1952.
Map of Dingestow Court, Monmouth, UK
The court has an "unusually complicated building history. Its origins are the early sixteenth-century house of the Jones family," of which part of the gatehouse range survives. In the late eighteenth century, the main house was rebuilt by James Duberley and was then acquired by Samuel Bosanquet in 1801. In the mid-nineteenth century, Sir John Bosanquet commissioned Lewis Vulliamy to extend and restore the house, followed, some twenty years later, with limited additions, although much more extensive plans, by John Prichard and John Pollard Seddon. An east wing and interior re-modelling were undertaken in the late nineteenth century and finally the kitchen wing was added in 1927.
The varied building history of the court is reflected in its rather disjointed appearance. Vulliamy's south front is a near copy of that of the mansion of Franks Hall, Horton Kirby, Kent. The west front includes the original sixteenth-century gatehouse. The interior is little more co-ordinated but contains some "significant" nineteenth century rooms.
The grounds were laid out by Edward Milner in the nineteenth century. They are a largely complete example of a nineteenth-century park.
The court remains the private home of the Bosanquets and is not open to the public, although the grounds are occasionally opened for charitable events.