Heron's Tower About 35 Yards South-east of Westwood House
HERON'S TOWER ABOUT 35 YARDS SOUTH-EAST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1173901
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Heron's Tower About 35 Yards South-east of Westwood House
- Statutory Address:
- HERON'S TOWER ABOUT 35 YARDS SOUTH-EAST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1173901
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Heron's Tower About 35 Yards South-east of Westwood House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HERON'S TOWER ABOUT 35 YARDS SOUTH-EAST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE
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:
- HERON'S TOWER ABOUT 35 YARDS SOUTH-EAST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 87581 63913
Details
SO 86 SE WESTWOOD CP WESTWOOD PARK
4/244 Heron's Tower about 35 yards south-east - of Westwood House 14.3.69 GV I
Garden pavilion, now house. 1660-70 for Sir John Pakington, as part of the alterations to his grandfather's hunting lodge, Westwood House (qv) to convert it into the main family home; restored by Sir Reginald Blomfield early C20 and altered mid-C20. Red brick in English bond with sandstone ashlar dressings and untouched by classicism apart from fishscale-tiled, two-stage ogee cupola with cut finial. Square plan; three storeys on chamfered plinth with moulded eaves cornice. First floor has stone mullioned and transomed windows, and second floor has 2-light mullioned windows. Former main entrance in north elevation has a studded door and rectangular light to left; present main entrance in C20 single storey hipped-roof extension to east elevation. Upper south-east corners each have tourelle-like stone chimneys with octagonal shafts. There were originally four garden pavilions linked to the house and the gatehouse (qv) by a series of low walls forming a dramatic composition, as shown by Kip's illustration of c1698. The two westernmost pavilions and all the enclosures were removed during the C18. (CL xii, 689; Lxiv, 50, 94; cxiii, 1698; cxxxiv, 738; VCH III (i); BoE).
Listing NGR: SO8758163914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148140
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968)
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 12, (), 689
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 12, (), 50,94
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 12, (), 1698
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 12, (), 738
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,
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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