Baron Villa

BARON VILLA

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Explore this list entry

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349979
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Baron Villa
Statutory Address:
BARON VILLA
User submitted image
Contributed by Selwyn Ray This photo may not represent the current condition of the site. Over 400,000 images and stories have been added to the Missing Pieces Project so far. Share your story.
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. 

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

Icon Buildings
Icon Scheduled monuments
Icon Parks and gardens
Icon Battlefields
Icon Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.
Date:
1999-10-08
Reference:
IOE01/00346/27
Rights:
© Geoff Hodgson. Source: Historic England Archive

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349979
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Baron Villa
Statutory Address 1:
BARON VILLA

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

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:
BARON VILLA

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 95682 37335

Details

OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/106 Baron Villa - II

House. Late C18, altered c1905 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; plain tiled roof with gable- end parapets. Large ashlar ridge stack to east of centre, also west end ridge stack with two shafts and moulded capping. Two storeys and attic with dormers. One plus three bays. Three-bay part has 16-pane sashes with moulded architraves on both floors, a C20 gabled dormer with a 2-light casement and a central entrance which has a wide open pediment on engaged Doric columns, a door with six raised and fielded panels and a transom light with three glazing bars. The left bay has a hipped-roofed two-storey wing with a 2-light casement on both floors and a 5-light casement on the first floor in the angle with the main part. Attic light at east gable end. A single-storey wing adjoins the east side elevation and has a 2-light casement with a cambered head in its east gable end. (Newton, W G: The Life and Works of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).

Listing NGR: SO9568437335

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
148559
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Newton, W, The Work of Ernest Newton RA, (1925)

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 Baron Villa

Map

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 25-Jun-2026 at 09:50:28.

Download a full scale map (PDF)
© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. Use of this mapping is subject to Terms and Conditions.

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.

Previous Overview
Next Comments and Photos