5/28/2023 0 Comments Cornus mas images![]() Internal features include the bolection moulded hall fireplace, the enclosed staircase with paneled dado and turned balusters to the landing. There are eighteen pane thick glazing bar sashes in ovolo moulded stone surround. There is a Queen Anne front pillared portico with a magnificent wood carved doorway reputedly by Grinling Gibbons.Ĭonstructed under a stone slate roof and ashlar stacks, with hipped roof, moulded coping to parapet and corner urns. Luckington Court is a Grade II* Listed Cotswold stone detached dwelling house which was first extended and refashioned in a 16th Century style with original Tudor features at the rear including the stone mullioned windows. This exemplary English country dwelling house, with its elegant well-proportioned rooms, good ceiling heights and tall sash windows, provides not only a wonderful home and place to live but also a profitable Estate, with expanded farming, residential and commercial income streams. Lt-Col Horn’s daughter returned to Luckington Court in 2003 and since then, has conducted a compassionate programme of improvement and modernisation across the whole Estate. In 1995, Luckington Court had exteriors and interiors used to showcase Longbourn, the Bennet family home, in the BBC’s TV series Pride and Prejudice, which starred Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. Lt-Col Trevor Horn and his family purchased Luckington Court in 1947 he was renowned in the area for being the first director of the world’s most prestigious three day event, Badminton Horse Trials and remained at the helm until 1956. There were further additions including the service wing to the north by the Johnson-Ferguson family in 1921. Placed in the Domesday Book its name has been given as Lochintone.īuilt in local creamy Cotswold stone, Luckington Court was first extended and remodeled in a 16th Century or earlier core by the Fitzherbert family, who had purchased in 1632 and continued to own until the early 1800’s. Local history of the surrounding area places Luckington Court on the site of a manor owned by King Harold II before 1066 who was killed that year in the Battle of Hastings, so there is a known potential royal connection. 18.99 acres (7.68 hectares) of permanent grassland.Integral flat and separate self-contained annexe accommodation. ![]() Grade II* Listed dwelling house with 8 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms.Beautiful Grade II* Listed 11th Century dwelling house with original Tudor features and 16th Century remodeling, integral secondary accommodation, five further dwellings, farm buildings, nestled within a ring fence of permanent pasture and woodland with River Avon frontage in Luckington village.
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