The Rotunda About 1/2 Mile North-east of Hagley Hall

THE ROTUNDA ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH-EAST OF HAGLEY HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1348598
Date first listed:
17-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
The Rotunda About 1/2 Mile North-east of Hagley Hall
Statutory Address:
THE ROTUNDA ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH-EAST OF HAGLEY HALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1348598
Date first listed:
17-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
The Rotunda About 1/2 Mile North-east of Hagley Hall
Statutory Address 1:
THE ROTUNDA ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH-EAST OF HAGLEY 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE ROTUNDA ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH-EAST OF HAGLEY HALL

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

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Bromsgrove (District Authority)
Parish:
Hagley
National Grid Reference:
SO 92833 80953

Details

In the entry for: SO 98 SW HAGLEY HAGLEY PARK

2/131 The Rotunda about ½ mile 17.7.86 north-east of Hagley Hall

II

The grade shall be amended to read Grade II*

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SO 98 SW HAGLEY CP HAGLEY PARK

2/131 The Rotunda about ½ mile north-east of Hagley Hall

II Rotunda. 1747 by John Pitt of Encombe. Sandstone ashlar. Two-stepped circular base on which stand eight Ionic columns with entasis; the lower half of each column is vermiculated; above is entablature with dentilled cornice and domical roof of which little survives. The rotunda stands at the head of a valley facing the north-east elevation of Hagley Hall (qv) and in which was originally situated a cascade and a Palladian bridge, also designed by Pitt. [CL articles (mainly Vol 122, p 546 & 608); BoE, p 178).

Listing NGR: SO9283380953

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
156395
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 178
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 122, (), 546+608

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 The Rotunda About 1/2 Mile North-east of Hagley Hall

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