The Mynde

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The Mynde
Front elevation, The Mynde (geograph 2284116).jpg
The Mynde East elevation
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Location Much Dewchurch, Herefordshire, England
Coordinates 51°57′49″N2°46′18″W / 51.96348°N 2.771801°W / 51.96348; -2.771801
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameThe Mynde
Designated20 October 1952
Reference no.1348825
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Location in Herefordshire

The Mynde is a listed building#Grade I listed [1] country house in Much Dewchurch, Herefordshire, dating from the 15th century.

Originally constructed in the 15th and 16th century, it was remodelled in the 18th century and recast in the 19th century by William Atkinson. Built of sandstone rubble and brick, it is stuccoed on three sides. It has a rectangular floor plan with rear projecting wings to the west and an east facing frontage and is built in 3 storeys with a hipped Welsh slate roof. The main front elevation has 9 bays, with the central five bays slightly projecting, with a porch flanked by Doric columns supporting an entablature. [1]

It stands in a 1,180-acre estate and is approached along a mile-long private 'carriage drive' with views of the gardens, lake and the surrounding Herefordshire countryside.

History

The estate had descended in the Pye family since the Norman conquest and was their family seat in Tudor times. Amongst the Pye owners of the property were the lawyer and Elizabethan courtier Walter Pye I and the Royalist courtier Walter Pye II.

In 1709 the Duke of Chandos acquired the house and added the striking Kings Hall with plasterwork by Bugatti and Attari. [2]

In 1740 it was purchased by Richard Symons of London. He was succeeded by his son John Symons in 1753, [3] who became MP for Hereford in 1754. [4] He and his wife Ann (nee Colebrooke) had no children and following his death on 30th December 1763 [4] the estate passed to his nephew Richard Peers. [3] This was subject to his wife being allowed to live there for her natural life and Peers taking the name Symons. [3] [5] Ann died on 4th March 1765 aged 53. [6] Richard Symons died unmarried and childless in 1796. [7] By his grandfather's will the estate passed to Thomas Raymond, the eldest son of the grandfather’s niece Mary Raymond, who likewise adopted the Symons name and arms. [8] [9] The estate then descended in the direct male line of the Symons family to Thomas Edward Raymond Symons (d. 1928), on whose death it was sold to a fellow army officer, Henry Ambrose Clive, younger son of General Edward Henry Clive of Perrystone Court, Herefordshire. [10] In 1959 the estate was bought by William Anthony Twiston-Davies (d. 1989); [11] [12] [13] his son, Audley, completed a restoration of the main house between 1997 and 2001, and put the property on the market in 2013. [14]

In 2016 the property was sold for £15m to Richard and Sarah Burt.

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References

  1. 1 2 Historic England. "The Mynde (1348825)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  2. ↑ "Four outstanding country houses". Country Life. 19 June 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 Will of Richard Symons, Fishmonger of London. Great Britain: The National Archives. 6 November 1753.
  4. 1 2 Namier, Lewis Bernstein; Brooke, John (1964). "SYMONS, John (1708-63), of Mynde Park, Hereford | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  5. ↑ Will of John Symons of Herefordshire. Great Britain: The National Archives. 3 January 1764.
  6. ↑ Duncumb, John; Matthews, John Hobson (1912). Collections Towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford: Hundred of Wormelow Upper division, Part 1. Wright. p. 91.
  7. ↑ "SYMONS, Richard (?1743-96), of Mynde Park, Hereford | History of Parliament Online".
  8. ↑ A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, John Burke and John Bernard Burke, Scott, Webster & Geary, 1838, p. 518
  9. ↑ "LLGC-NLW".
  10. ↑ "Mynde Estate Records". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  11. ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry 1972, 'Twiston-Davies of The Mynde' pedigree
  12. ↑ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 1973, Kelly's Directories, p. 1274
  13. ↑ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 2000, Kelly's Directories, p. 31
  14. ↑ "Four outstanding country houses". 19 June 2013.
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