NOS 1 AND 2 THE GATEHOUSE ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1350205
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1969
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 AND 2 THE GATEHOUSE ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: NOS 1 AND 2 THE GATEHOUSE ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1350205
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1969
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 AND 2 THE GATEHOUSE ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NOS 1 AND 2 THE GATEHOUSE ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE

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:: NOS 1 AND 2 THE GATEHOUSE ABOUT 50 YARDS EAST OF WESTWOOD HOUSE

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County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Westwood
National Grid Reference:: SO 87621 63940

Details

SO 86 SE WESTWOOD CP WESTWOOD PARK

4/243 Nos 1 and 2 The Gatehouse about 50 yards east of - Westwood House 14.3.69 GV I

Gatehouse. Probably 1660-70 for Sir John Pakington as part of the major alterations to his grandfather's hunting lodge, Westwood House (qv) to convert it into the main family home, restored by Sir Reginald Blomfield early C20. Red brick in English bond with sandstone ashlar dressings and cross-gabled plain tiled roofs. Flemish inspired style. Two square lodges, linked by a sandstone archway with bold open strapwork decoration and, above, a wooden strapwork lantern with two-stage ogee cupola. Each lodge is two storeys on a chamfered plinth; square with rebated corners, and external chimmeys each side with paired, diagonally-set stone shafts. Three-light mullion and transom windows with leaded casements on both floors, beneath ornately shaped gable with kneelers and many cut finials, and with a blind oculus in the apex of each. Sandstone archway between has a dropped keystone, cast iron gates with elaborately detailed upper rail and above is a fretwork of arcades and circles incorporating the Pakington gerbes and mullets. Lantern is supported on posts with swept braces forming a round archway; the lantern is formed of open strapwork panelling and has a two-stage, fishscale-tiled, ogee cupola with cut finial. Inner sides of lodges facing drive have plain chamfered doorways set within the gates. The gatehouse forms a dramatic entrance to the house and is an important element of the overall composition helping to alleviate the abruptness with which the house rises out of the surrounding countryside. The original relation- ship was even more impressive, as shown in Kip's illustration of the estate, c1698, for the gatehouse was linked to the main pile and the two surviving garden pavilions (qv) by low walls to form a diamond-shaped forecourt, itself related to the overall planting of the park. The two westernmost pavilions and the enclosures were removed during the C18. (CL xii, 689; Lxiv, 50, 94; cxiii, 1689; cxxxiv, 738; VCH III (i); BoE).

Listing NGR: SO8762363943

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Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968)
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 12, (), 689
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 12, (), 130
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 12, (), 738
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 12, (), 1689
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.