Dingestow Court

Dingestow Court
Dingestow Court by Augustus Butler; mid 19th century lithograph.
General information
Town or city	Dingestow
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°47′00″N 2°47′52″W / 51.7834°N 2.7978°W / 51.7834; -2.7978Coordinates: 51°47′00″N 2°47′52″W / 51.7834°N 2.7978°W / 51.7834; -2.7978
Construction started	early 1600
Completed	1927
Client	Samuel Bosanquet
Design and construction
Architect	Lewis Vulliamy, Prichard and Seddon, and others
Designations	Grade II* listed

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.

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.