Pershore Hall
PERSHORE HALL, MOUNT PLEASANT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104235
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Pershore Hall
- Statutory Address:
- PERSHORE HALL, MOUNT PLEASANT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104235
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Pershore Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- PERSHORE HALL, MOUNT PLEASANT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PERSHORE HALL, MOUNT PLEASANT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pershore
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94626 46731
Details
PERSHORE
SO9446 MOUNT PLEASANT 648-1/4/177 Pershore Hall
II
Country house now divided into flats. 1862 with later alterations. By Whitfield Dawkes, for the Humphries family. Red brick with blue brick diaperwork and limestone ashlar dressings. Hipped Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks concealed behind parapets. PLAN: roughly square on plan with entrances to NE and SE elevations and one other decorative elevation to SW. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. In Jacobethan style having deep plinth; moulded string courses; quoined angles and surrounds; mullioned windows, some transomed, with hoodmoulds; ornate roofscape with decorative parapets, turrets, spires and finials. SE elevation: 5 bays, that at centre breaking forward below taller gable; at each end, a 3-stage polygonal turret with embattled conical cap. Outer bays have cross-windows with moulded surrounds and hoodmoulds, those on ground floor incorporating decorative relief panels as keystones and with figurative stops to hoodmoulds. Central bay has 1st-floor oriel window with tiered pyramidal roof surmounted by decorative finial and flanked by narrow lancets; remodelled door and brick surround. Stepped brick parapet with moulded stone coping and decorative stone panels on either side of taller central gable which has 4 stone spirelets with decorative iron finials. NE elevation: gabled entrance-bay breaks forward and has two large pointed-arched stair-windows with mullions, transoms, hoodmoulds, decorative stops and coloured glass; 2-storey bay-window with tiered pyramidal roof; further 3-pane lights and decorative external chimney; stone parapet with quatrefoil panels. SW elevation: 5 asymmetrical bays with plainer 3-bay wing projecting on left. Gableted right-hand bay, flanked by turrets, has 2-storey canted bay-window with pyramidal stone roof. Near-central gabled bay projects and has 1st-floor window of 4 stepped lights, those at centre under pointed arch; moulded pointed-arched doorway (now window) below. Further doorway to bay 4 and a stepped 3-light window on each floor, that on ground floor with pointed-arched lights and decorative spandrels. Openwork parapet with cusped panels; spirelets to central gable; decorative external chimney
between left-hand bays. INTERIOR: northern entrance-hall has pointed-arch arcade with heavily-ordered arches, stiff-leaf capitals, stiff-leaf ceiling cornice, stone staircase with decorative wrought-iron balusters, and decorative 9-panel doors. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was built for the Humphries family, who were machine-makers, on the site of a former farm. Whitfield Dawkes was also the architect of Cirencester Agricultural College.
Listing NGR: SO9462646731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474550
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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