Perrott House
PERROTT HOUSE, 17, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1386920
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Perrott House
- Statutory Address:
- PERROTT HOUSE, 17, BRIDGE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04412/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1386920
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1965
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Perrott House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PERROTT HOUSE, 17, BRIDGE STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PERROTT HOUSE, 17, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pershore
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 95046 45658
Details
PERSHORE
SO9545 BRIDGE STREET 648-1/5/13 (East side) 11/02/65 No.17 Perrott House (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET (East side) Perrott House)
GV I
House. c1760. Possibly by Robert Adam. For Judge Perrot (Baron of the Exchequer). Red brick, with some yellow, in Flemish bond, the rear and left return stuccoed; painted and part-rendered stone dressings. Hipped roof, of plain tile and Welsh slate, with brick end-stacks, a small off-ridge stack, and another to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3 bays. Moulded plinth; rusticated end-pilasters supporting deep moulded cornice and linked by 1st-floor plat- and sill-bands. Central bay projects under corniced pediment. On 2nd floor, tripartite windows with bracketed sills, pilasters, cornices and sashes of 4/4:6/6:4/4 panes. On 1st and ground floors outer bays have 2-storey corniced canted bay windows with pitched lead roofs; tripartite windows with 4/4:6/6:4/4-pane sashes on 1st floor; and Venetian windows below, which have 4/4:11/6:4/4-pane sashes with radial glazing bars to centre, pilasters and moulded cornices. Similar Venetian window with bracketed sill to centre on 1st floor. Cellar grilles. Central doorcase has 3 nosed steps up to 8-panel door below deep fanlight with decorative glazing and archivolt with block voussoirs; side-lights with octagonal panes flanked by corniced pilasters supporting entablature and rising from deep plinth. Iron scraper. Rear: main wing has Venetian windows on ground and first floors, triple sashes above, and central octagonally-paned glazed door up stone steps with side-lights and arched hood supported by wrought-iron brackets. INTERIOR: fine plasterwork to walls and ceilings in Adam style; mahogony 6-panel doors, reportedly replacements of earlier painted pine doors; panelled doors and shutters throughout. "Adam Room" to rear left has richly decorative plasterwork ceiling and walls; oval mirror in plaster frame above grey-marble fireplace with decorative mantelshelf; chair rail;
panelled walls. Dining Room to front left has ceiling with painted reclining Classical figure and busts; decorative cornice; grey-marble fireplace with Adam surround. Front Hall has octagonal-paned glazing to lobby similar to rear entrance. Library to front right has remodelled marble fireplace with inset steel firebasket; cornice; replacement chair rail. Dog-leg stair with stick balusters, moulded handrail, restrained panels and glazed skylight. (BoE: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 242; Country Life: Little B: Georgian Beauty in an Abbey Town).
Listing NGR: SO9505645656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474334
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 242
Little, B, Country Life in Georgian Beauty In An Abbey Town, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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