Nieuport House, (also known as Newport House), Leominster, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

A country house with mainly early 20th-century formal gardens which overlie several earlier phases, including work by W A Nesfield and the formal gardens laid out when the present house was built around 1712-19. The surrounding landscape park has similar, multi-phase, development.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Nieuport House (the Francophile spelling of what earlier sources consistently reproduce as Newport appears to be a 20th-century affectation) stands one kilometre north-west of the village of Almeley and 5 kilometres south-south-east of Kington in a pastoral, rural landscape. The parkland falls from north-west to south-east, and is drained by a minor tributary of the River Wye, which lies 5 kilometres to the south. South of the lake this enters Coke’s Yeld Dingle, which extends to a fishpond at Almeley Bridge around 600 metres south-east of the minor local road running west from Almeley to the A4111 from Kington to Eardisley which otherwise bounds the park to the south-east and south-west. To the north the park boundary describes the north edge of Highmoor Wood, while to the east it follows field boundaries. The area here registered is roughly 125 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

D Whitehead, The Country Houses of Herefordshire (forthcoming)

Maps

James King, Plan of Newport, 1774 (G75/1), (Herefordshire Record Office)

Almeley Tithe map, 1840 (Herefordshire Record Office)

Plan attached to 1909 sale particulars (AO60/5), (Herefordshire Record Office)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition 1882; 2nd edition 1904

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition 1882

Illustrations

Painting, A Stag Hunt at Newport, (Stoke Edith House)

Archival items

Whitehead cites papers in Herefordshire Record Office (collection E12)

Sale Particulars 1909, 1916 (AO60/5), (Herefordshire Record Office) 

Description written: September 1998

Edited: August 1999