The Red House School and Flanking Walls
THE RED HOUSE SCHOOL AND FLANKING WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296661
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Red House School and Flanking Walls
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED HOUSE SCHOOL AND FLANKING WALLS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296661
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Red House School and Flanking Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RED HOUSE SCHOOL AND FLANKING WALLS
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:
- THE RED HOUSE SCHOOL AND FLANKING WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Overbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 95882 37619
Details
OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/129 21/3 The Red House School and flanking walls 30-7-59 (formerly listed as Red House) - I
Shown on the OS map as The Red House. House, now private school and flanking walls. Mid-C18, altered and extended 1901 and 1910 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Red brick with limestone ashlar dressings and base; plain tiled hipped roofs behind parapets and with brick end stacks. Three storeys and cellar, ashlar band at first floor level and moulded cornice beneath parapet. Three bays with rusticated end quoins. Windows all have stone architraves; outer bays have Venetian windows on all floors with four consoles beneath jambs, moulded keyblocks and 12-pane central sashes with traceried upper glazing bars and 8-pane outer sashes. Windows in central bay have two consoles beneath jambs, moulded cor- nices and 12-pane sashes. Central entrance has a pediment and entablature on simple engaged columns, a half-glazed door and a transom light with three glazing bars. It is reached by two flights of four steps with cast iron rail- ings which have a scrolled frieze at the base and the two central standards have small ball finials. Large two-storey wing adjoins to rear right by Newton using similar materials and details. Flanking walls probably also by Newton. Brick on tall ashlar base with ashlar coping. Both walls are about 12 feet high and five yards long and set back slightly from the front elevation. At the centre of each wall is a gateway with a plain stone architrave and broad lintel and a timber gate with a decorative openwork "Chinese Chippendale" upper panel [cf main staircase balustrade on second floor of Northlands House (qv) and Sunny Bank Cottage (qv)]. (Newton, W G: The Life and Works of Ernest Newton, London, 1925; BoE, p 233).
Listing NGR: SO9588237619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148582
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newton, W, The Work of Ernest Newton RA, (1925)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 233
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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