CROOME COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1349526
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: CROOME COURT
Statutory Address:: CROOME COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1349526
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: CROOME COURT
Statutory Address 1:: CROOME COURT

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.

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:: CROOME COURT

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:: Croome D'abitot
National Grid Reference:: SO 88494 44596

Details

SO 84 SE CROOME D'ABITOT CROOME COURT

3/12 Croome Court (formerly listed as Croome Court with Stables, 11.8.52 Garden Room or Temple, Principal Lodge, Lodge on west, and Panorama)

GV I

Country House 1751-2 by Lancelot (Capability) Brown with advice from Sanderson Miller. Interior work from 1760 by Robert Adam. Built for 6th Earl of Coventry. Limestone ashlar Palladian mansion with principal North and South fronts of 11 bays. Basement and 2 storeys with 3 storey end pavilions. Slate roofs, pyramidal over corner towers and 3 paired axial chimneys, pair linked by arches. 1-3-3-3-1 division with pedimented centre to North and fine pro- jecting Ionic tetrastyle portico to South. Modillion cornice and balustrade to flanking wings. Moulded window architraves enriched with flat cornices on ground floor main range, pediments to North front pavilions and Venetian win- dows to South front pavilions. Roman Doric curved pediment doorcase to North front, flat cornice on consoles over South door. Chamfered quoins to project- ing centre and to end pavilions. Fine 2 armed balustraded stair to North door and broad straight flight up to South door flanked by cast stone sphinxes. INTERIOR partly Brown with plasterwork by G Vassalli, partly Robert Adam with plaster by J Rose Jr. 2 Adam rooms removed to New York and London. Spine corridor with stone stair at East end with moulded underside and iron balu- strade. NORTH SIDE: Entrance hall with 4 fluted Doric columns and Palladian moulded doorcases, to East, dining-room with plaster cornice and ceiling, original pelmets, to West, billiard-room with fielded panelling, plaster cor- nice and rococo fireplace. These rooms, probably decorated c.1758-9, probably by Brown. SOUTH SIDE: Fine central Saloon with elaborate deep coved ceiling with 3 embellished panels and rich cornice, fine Palladian doorcases and 2 marble Ionic columned fireplaces. Room probably by Brown and Vassalli. To East former tapestry room now dismantled; ceiling a copy of original by R Adam and J Rose. Beyond, former library by R Adam, largely dismantled; marble fire- place. To West, drawing-room with shallow rococo-style plaster and marble fireplace. At WEST END, Gallery by R Adam 1764, with half-hexagonal bay to garden, elaborate octagonal panelled ceiling by J Rose, plaster reliefs of griffins, painted grisaille panels and marble caryatid fireplace by J Wilton. Attached at East end, SERVICE WING: L plan, red brick and stone with slate hipped roofs. 2 storey. Stone plinth, band, moulded eaves cornice and Chamfered quoins. Glazing bar sash windows with gauged brick heads. Red brick wall joins service wing to stable court beyond: 2 rusticated stone gate piers, one still with ball finial. CL 10.4.1915. A T Bolton: The architecture of R and J Adam 1922. D Stroud: Capability Brown 1975. G Bead: Decorative Plasterwork 1975. R Adam and Croome Court Connoisseur October 1953.

Listing NGR: SO8849444596

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Legacy System number:: 152529
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bead, G, Decorative Plasterwork, (1975)
Bolton, A T , The Architecture of Robert and James Adam 1758-94, (1922)
Stroud, D, Capability Brown, (1975)
'Country Life' in 10 April, (1915)
'The Connoisseur' in October, (1953)

Legal

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