High Park

HIGH PARK, A 4133

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173700
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1969
List Entry Name:
High Park
Statutory Address:
HIGH PARK, A 4133

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173700
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1969
List Entry Name:
High Park
Statutory Address 1:
HIGH PARK, A 4133

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HIGH PARK, A 4133

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:
Salwarpe
National Grid Reference:
SO 87514 62783

Details

SO 86 SE SALWARPE CP A 4133 (south side)

4/216 High Park

14.3.69 GV II

House. Late C18, altered and extended c1830 with further alterations c1940. Ashlar with hipped slate roof and ashlar chimney stacks. Two storeys with plinth, moulded eaves cornice and blocking course. Original house a double depth plan of five bays; large ballroom wing added to east side elevation in 1830 and also extensive rear additions and a billiard room to the rear west side elevation which were demolished in c1940. Present front elevation of 2:1:2 bays plus two bays of ballroom wing, outer bay first floor windows are glazing bar sashes with moulded architraves; ground floor of original part now altered in 1830 by addition of a flat-roofed bay window to the two left side bays and a central porch and Doric colonnade to the two right side bays all of which are balustraded; the bay window has a moulded cornice and mullioned and transomed window of three lights; at the right side, behind the Doric colonnade are two tall glazed double doors with moulded cornices now obscured by the colonnade; the central bay is accentuated by a large round-arched recess with a round-arched multi-paned first floor window; at ground floor level a porch with two Doric columns and entablature projects beyond the colonnade; the entrance has panelled double doors and a large transom light with segmental tracery. The two bays of the ballroom wing have a bay window at ground floor level similar to that added onto the left side; on the first floor are two glazing bar sash windows with moulded architraves. Interior: main ground floor rooms enriched with a revival of Adam style detailing contemporary with the alterations c1830; entrance hall has a dog-leg staircase incorporating spiral balusters of c1700 on a straight string; dining room and drawing room have richly carved mid-C18 fireplaces re-used from another'house.' The side elevation has a datestone inscribed "A Gresley 1793". A sandstone ha-ha runs across the front elevation about 15 yards from the house.

Listing NGR: SO8751462783

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
148112
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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