WALLS, GATE PIERS, GATES AND PAVILLIONS SURROUNDING THE FORECOURT AT MERE HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1350138
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1952
List Entry Name:: WALLS, GATE PIERS, GATES AND PAVILLIONS SURROUNDING THE FORECOURT AT MERE HALL
Statutory Address:: WALLS, GATE PIERS, GATES AND PAVILLIONS SURROUNDING THE FORECOURT AT MERE HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1350138
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1952
List Entry Name:: WALLS, GATE PIERS, GATES AND PAVILLIONS SURROUNDING THE FORECOURT AT MERE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WALLS, GATE PIERS, GATES AND PAVILLIONS SURROUNDING THE FORECOURT AT MERE HALL

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:: WALLS, GATE PIERS, GATES AND PAVILLIONS SURROUNDING THE FORECOURT AT MERE HALL

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Hanbury
National Grid Reference:: SO 95225 61870

Details

HANBURY CP BROUGHTON GREEN SO 96 SE 4/77 (15/14A) Walls, gate piers, gates and pavilions surrounding 29.12.52 the forecourt at Mere Hall GV II

Walls, gate piers, gates and pavilions. c1700. Red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings. Wall varies between eight and four feet high and encloses space of approximately 1500 square yards. Taller part has recessed panels; section facing house forms base to cast iron railings interrupted by openwork piers at about two yard intervals. Central gateway has square brick piers with moulded stone cappings and ball finials; ornate cast iron gate has foliated detail. At the outer corners are square pavilions; both pavilions have fishscale tiled ogee cupolas surmounted by cast iron weathervanes; the sides facing the forecourt are open and the upper parts are filled by wooden semi-circular arched panels with central moulded pendants; the north elevations have 24-pane sash windows with moulded architraves; inside the pavilions are re-used Jacobean benches. The gates are no longer used as the main entrance which is now at the rear of the building. The layout of the forecourt is an interesting example of the Queen Anne period, and is of considerable compositional value to the front elevation of Mere Hall (qv). (VCH 3 (ii), p 373).

Listing NGR: SO9522561870

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Legacy System number:: 147753
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 373

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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.