ASTLEY HALL
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155604
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1984
- Statutory Address:
- ASTLEY HALL
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- ASTLEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Astley and Dunley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 79919 67762
Details
SO 76 NE ASTLEY CP -
3/26 Astley Hall
-
- II
S L B
Small country house now nursing home, dated on porch but probably
1912
dates from mid-C19 with early C20 additions. Ashlar with slate roof. Main
block and link to L-shaped stable wing. Jacobean facade; a 3-storey 3-bay centre
block and 2-storey single bay wings with cornices, parapets and shaped gables;
moulded plinth and cornices over ground and first floors, 2- and 3-light,
mullioned and transomed windows. Outer bays of main block have 2-storey angled
bay windows with open parapets, outer bays of wings with slight forward breaks;
gables of outer bays have small architraved vents, gables of centre bays have
keyed wreaths; central 2-storey porch with segmental pediment and 3 Ionic columns
to first floor; semi-circular headed doorway with rusticated arch to head formed
with jewelled blocks and Ionic motif above keystone, similar around windows to
sides. Porch flanked by 2-light transomed window and Ionic pilasters; band of
strapwork and jewelled ornament form aprons to first floor. To the right a
Tudor arched garden entrance with finials and brackets. To left slightly later
cross-gabled extension with clock and also slightly later brick stable range
with stone dressings. Right hand return has triangular plan bay window. Garden
front is slightly plainer with 2-storey pedimented porch containing a coat of
arms. Extension to right has on first floor Ionic 3-bay loggia with arched
central bay below a gable, further extension to right terminates in rendered
pavilion possibly concealing water tower with a short arcade of 3 rounded
arches. Grouped chimneys with decorative shafting. Interior entrance lobby
has Jacobean strapwork ceiling. Date of 1912 on porch refers to the date of
the final acquisition of the house and additions to it by Stanley Baldwin
(1867 - 1947) MP and 3 times Prime Minister, who had lived there since 1902
and lived there until his death in 1947. The porch itself resembles that of
Grafton. (BoE, p 73; VCH, Vol IV, p 231; My Father, The True Story, A W Baldwin
1955).
Listing NGR: SO7991967762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152254
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Baldwin, A W , My Father The True Story, (1955)
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 231
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing