Impney Hall

Impney Hall, Impney Estate, Droitwich Spa, WR9 0BN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1288244
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: Impney Hall
Statutory Address:: Impney Hall, Impney Estate, Droitwich Spa, WR9 0BN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1288244
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: Impney Hall
Statutory Address 1:: Impney Hall, Impney Estate, Droitwich Spa, WR9 0BN

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

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Location

Statutory Address:: Impney Hall, Impney Estate, Droitwich Spa, WR9 0BN

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Dodderhill
National Grid Reference:: SO 91064 63969

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 October 2021 to update the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards

SO 96 SW 9/9

DODDERHILL CP IMPNEY ESTATE Impney Hall

(Formerly listed as Château Impney Hotel, IMPNEY PARK)

GV II* Country house, now hotel. 1869-1875 with late C20 alterations. By Auguste Tronquois of Paris, executed by Richard Phené Spiers, for John Corbett. Brick with ashlar dressings, mansard slate roof. French Renaissance style. Garden (south-west) front: two storeys on basement, two attic storeys, Symmetrical, with extra range of windows to left; ten windows arranged 1:3:3:3; the windows to left and right of main part in full-height three-window angled bays, all windows two-light plate glass French casements under segmental and rubbed brick heads with keystones, stone balconies to central window and to front of bays, ornate cast iron railings to others; central windows of bays are tripartite flanked by stone quoin pilasters; central window has rusticated effect to jambs produced by alternate bands of stone and brick. Ground floor windows as above, with the rusticated effect to all save the two central windows of the bays which have rusticated fluted pilasters; the five central windows open onto the terrace (qv); basement rusticated. Attics: lower level has ten dormer windows all in surrounds bearing a profusion of classical detail used in a quasi-Gothic style; urns and cast iron railings to parapet balcony, date stones over central windows of all the angled bays; "1875"; upper level: seven windows with wooden surrounds, round heads; further shaped vents above into the roof space of the hipped cross-roofs.

Interior: mostly destroyed, but at south-east end (entrance front) a well staircase off hall with stained glass windows.

An interesting example of a house erected by a self-made Victorian industrialist. The French Château style was short lived and rare outside London. Original plans hang in the hotel.

Listing NGR: SO9106463969

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Legacy System number:: 400134
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1979), 295-296
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 137-138

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