CURVED LINKING WING, PAVILION AND ORANGERY AND INCLUDING FIVE-ARCHED ARCADE TO REAR OF LINK - SOUTH-WEST OF WITLEY COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1349485
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: CURVED LINKING WING, PAVILION AND ORANGERY AND INCLUDING FIVE-ARCHED ARCADE TO REAR OF LINK - SOUTH-WEST OF WITLEY COURT
Statutory Address:: CURVED LINKING WING, PAVILION AND ORANGERY AND INCLUDING FIVE-ARCHED ARCADE TO REAR OF LINK - SOUTH-WEST OF WITLEY COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1349485
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: CURVED LINKING WING, PAVILION AND ORANGERY AND INCLUDING FIVE-ARCHED ARCADE TO REAR OF LINK - SOUTH-WEST OF WITLEY COURT
Statutory Address 1:: CURVED LINKING WING, PAVILION AND ORANGERY AND INCLUDING FIVE-ARCHED ARCADE TO REAR OF LINK - SOUTH-WEST OF WITLEY COURT

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

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:: CURVED LINKING WING, PAVILION AND ORANGERY AND INCLUDING FIVE-ARCHED ARCADE TO REAR OF LINK - SOUTH-WEST OF WITLEY COURT

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County:: Worcestershire
District:: Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Witley
National Grid Reference:: SO 76923 64918

Details

SO 76 SE GREAT WITLEY CP WITLEY PARK 6/85 Curved linking wing, pavilion and Orangery and including five-arched arcade to rear of link - south-west of Witley Court -

GV II*

Curved link, possibly formerly nursery wing, five-arched arcade to rear, pavilion and connecting Orangery. Now ruined. c1860 by S Daukes for Lord Ward, later first Earl of Dudley. Bathstone ashlar. Curved link extends to south-west of house terminating with pavilion and connects with rectangular plan Orangery further west. The arcade is now an isolated structure aligned east/west toward the centre and rear of the link wall. Curved linking wing: 2 storeys and base- ment; rusticated plinth, string course, modillion cornice with balustraded parapet; 7 bays, cambered heads with keystones to basement windows, eared and shouldered architraves to first storey, aproned semi-circular headed arched windows with cornices and decorative spandrels to'top storey. Plain five-arched arcade to rear; pavilion: 2 storeys with moulded plinth and cornice and balustraded parapet; 2 giant pilasters of composite order flanking single bay, window similar to top storey of wing, composite portico in antis below. Orangery: 5:3:5 bays, rusticated plinth, dentilled cornice with egg and dart, water-leaf and bead and reel enrichments, arcades on composite columns with balustrade aprons and decorative spandrels. Central 3 bays forming portico with slight forward break, quadrant steps up.

Listing NGR: SO7692064917

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,

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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.