Falcon Tower About 35 Yards North West of Westwood House

FALCON TOWER ABOUT 35 YARDS NORTH WEST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1296011
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1969
List Entry Name:
Falcon Tower About 35 Yards North West of Westwood House
Statutory Address:
FALCON TOWER ABOUT 35 YARDS NORTH WEST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1296011
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1969
Date of most recent amendment:
21-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:
Falcon Tower About 35 Yards North West of Westwood House
Statutory Address 1:
FALCON TOWER ABOUT 35 YARDS NORTH WEST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
FALCON TOWER ABOUT 35 YARDS NORTH WEST 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 87610 63989

Details

SO 86 SE WESTWOOD CP WESTWOOD PARK

4/242 Falcon Tower about 35 yards north-west of - Westwood House 14.3.69 GV I

Garden pavilion, now house. 1660-70 for Sir John Pakington as part of the major 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; 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; stone mullioned and transomed windows to first floor and 2-light mullioned windows to second floor. Main south entrance has a studded door and 2-light mullioned window to right; east elevation has inserted double doors, and the west elevation has a C20 hipped roof, single storey extension and the first floor window is blocked. Upper north-east corners each have bartizan stone chimneys with octagonal shafts. There were originally four garden pavilions linked to the main house and the gate house (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; Lxiii, 1689; cxxxiv, 738; VCH III (i); BoE).

Listing NGR: SO8761263989

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
148138
Legacy System:
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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, (), 1689
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.

Ordnance survey map of Falcon Tower About 35 Yards North West of Westwood House

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