Purshall Hall
PURSHALL HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215235
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Purshall Hall
- Statutory Address:
- PURSHALL HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215235
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Purshall Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- PURSHALL HALL
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:
- PURSHALL HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elmbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 90089 70020
Details
ELMBRIDGE CP - SO 97 SW 3/31 Purshall Hall
- 29.12.52 GV II
House. Probably C15, altered C17 and mid-C18. Timber-frame clad in brick, hipped tile roof. Four framed bray cruck house embedded within later work. Two storeys, bands to both storeys, six windows: timber cross windows with plastered wedge lintels partially concealing segmental relieving arches, window to right in portion of brickwork straight jointed to the rest; gabled two storey porch off centre right with brick coped verge, ball finials to kneelers, finial in form of a face to apex, blank circular datestone in gable, cogged brick cornice, band to ground floor and vertical bands below; entrance has plastered semi-circular head with keystone and plain imposts; first floor window has two lights with chamfered mullion and jambs. Access refused, described from photographs in the Hereford and Worcester Photographic Survey, Hereford and Worcester Record Office. The house had a Roman Catholic chapel from 1742 until about 1796. (T G Holt 1981, A Note on Purshall Hall Chapel, Worcestershire Recusant 38, p 45; BoE p 142; VCH 3, p 63).
Listing NGR: SO9008970020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400306
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 63
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968)
Holt, T G, Worcestershire Recusant in A Note on Purshall Hall Chapel, Vol. 38, (1981), 45
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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