Listing
Search the List

What is Listing?

Listing Guidance

Apply for Listing

Missing Pieces Project

Blue Plaque Scheme
Listing

Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE).

Find out about listing

Terracotta tiles on the roof of Saintoft Lodge, Newton-on-Rawcliffe, Ryedale, North Yorkshire. Grade II listed © Historic England Archive DP371715
Advice
Climate Change

Heritage at Risk

Your Home

Technical Guidance

Planning

Caring for Heritage

Constructive Conservation
Advice

See our extensive range of expert advice to help you care for and protect historic places.

Get our advice

A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. Explore our technical advice section © Historic England Archive DP313199
Research
Our Research Strategy and Agenda

Research Governance

Latest Research

Research Methods

Current Research

Research Results

Support & Collaboration

Inclusive Heritage

Heritage Counts
Research

Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment.

Discover our research

Archaeologist Dr David Neal discussing his illustration of the mosaic being excavated at Rutland Roman Villa with members of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services team View image DP264265 © Historic England
Images & Books
Find Photos

Search All Publications

Buy Books

The Historic England Archive
Images & Books

Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment.

Browse our collections

Children play with a doll and a pram on the cobbled Church Path in Queen Camel, Somerset, in April 1953. At the far end of the path is the tower of the Church of St Barnabas, which dates to the 14th century. Photographer: John Gay Image reference: AA091596 © Historic England Archive
Services & Skills
Education

Grants

Our Planning Services

Training & Skills

Archive Services

Heritage Action Zones

Levelling Up Places Service
Services & Skills

Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development.

Learn about our services

Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. Find out more about Heritage Apprenticeships © Historic England Archive DP347660
What's New
News

In Your Area

Historic England Blog

Latest Research

Heritage Online Debate

Statements

Stay up to Date
What's New

Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area.

Catch up with what's new

Two horsemen reading The Sportsman, 30 Oct 1902, Farnborough, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Part of the Alfred Newton and Sons collection. Source Historic England Archive. BB98/02592
About Us
What We Do

Who We Are

How We Are Funded

Contact Us

Careers

Volunteer with Historic England
About Us

Historic England is the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England's spectacular historic environment.

Find out more

Mountbatten House (formerly Gateway House), Basing View, Basingstoke, the former headquarters for the paper merchants Wiggins Teape by Arup Associates. Listed at Grade II. © Historic England
Sign in
Manage my account

Sign out

PERRYCROFT

PERRYCROFT, B4232

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1178660
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: PERRYCROFT
Statutory Address:: PERRYCROFT, B4232

User submitted image — Uploaded by Brian Mawdsley This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1178660
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: PERRYCROFT
Statutory Address 1:: PERRYCROFT, B4232

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PERRYCROFT, B4232

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Colwall
National Grid Reference:: SO 76536 41803

Details

SO 74 SE COLWALL CP B4232 (west side)

4/53 Perrycroft

18.2.70

GV II*

House. Begun 1893 and dated 1895 by C F A Voysey for J Wilson, a railway magnate, in 'eclectic' Arts and Crafts and incipient Art Nouveau styles. Roughcast, grey slate 45 degree hipped roof with tapered finials to 2 hip junctions, deep eaves supported by slender iron brackets, 5 stacks 3 of which are battered and one punctured by an arch. 'U' plan, service wing in longer north-east arm, the bottom of the 'U' is the garden front: 2 storeys, 5 windows in 4 groups, first floor left and centre advanced. Ground floor has 16 and 12 pane metal casements separated by wooden mullions; first floor has 4 and 8 but mainly 12 pane windows, the 4 pane one arranged so that each superimposed pane pivots in parallel; left hand and central upper windows project and are supported on brackets following timber-frame precedent. The whole first floor elevation is cantilevered as if jettied over the ground floor to different degrees, yet controlled by battered buttresses to the sides. Entrance through 6 panelled door, the top 4 lights glazed; flat canopy, an integral bench to left and retractable roller sun- awning. A large bell hangs from a bracket supporting the canopy to right hand side. Inside the 'U': North front: 8 pane glazing bar windows on ground floor arranged to east of entrance and a band of similar windows set side by side to form a gallery-effect on first floor; flat roofed porch supported by 2 small and attenuated Tuscan type columns, leading to enriched strap-hinged ledged entrance door; mounting block to east. West side of service wing: different combinations of 4, 5, 6 and 8 pane glazing bar windows irregularly placed; entrance via porch to north side of 3 storey pagoda-like tower along- side Romanesque-style balustrading consisting of 5 marble columns with acanthus capitals separating Art Nouveau rainwater goods from contrasting austere pier finished in plain render. Interior: low entrance hall with plain wood open- well staircase and square section balusters. Ground floor fireplaces survive largely unaltered: those in entrance hall and kitchen have slender integral columns. In the entrance lobby from the garden front is combined fireplace and cupboard with strap-hinge decoration of peacocks in Viking Ringerike Style. Ground floor doors survive largely as first designed; first floor doors replaced. Safe by Whitfield and Company of Birmingham. Morris and Company wall-paper noted by Pevsner in 1963 has disappeared. Forms group with garden summer-house, walls, dovecote, lodge and stables (qv). One of Voysey's best Gousts.

Listing NGR: SO7653641803

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 151453
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.