37, HIGH STREET
37, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387076
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- 37, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 37, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387076
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1965
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 37, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37, HIGH 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:
- 37, HIGH 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 94943 45876
Details
PERSHORE
SO9445 HIGH STREET 648-1/5/133 (East side) 11/02/65 No.37 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) Pershore Rural District Council Offices)
GV II*
House, now offices. Mid-late C18 with later alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond. Hipped plain tile roof mostly concealed behind brick parapet and deep painted modillion eaves cornice; brick end-stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 3-window range with 2 wings to rear. Sill-bands. Central bay breaks forward slightly and has sash windows to each upper floor, of 3/3 panes to 2nd floor, 6/6 panes below, each with painted channelled voussoirs and keystone. To outer bays on 2nd floor, Diocletian windows with painted surrounds, central 3/3 sashes, and 2-pane side-lights. Below are 2-storey canted bay-windows with swept lead roofs, 4/4:6/6:4/4 sashes, and painted moulded cornices. At centre on ground floor, 2 small cambered-headed lights flank entrance which has Classical architrave with 3/4 Ionic columns and dentilled open pediment, round-arched door surround with panelled reveal, fanlight with radial glazing bars, 6-panel door, decorative wrought-iron handrails and 4 nosed stone steps. Painted brick plinth with blocked cellar openings. Clock on bracket projecting from centre of 1st floor. Rear: long right-hand (N) wing has timbers and render to left (S) side; left-hand (S) wing of part-chequered blue and red brick. INTERIOR: dog-leg staircase with stick balusters to rear right; moulded elliptical hall arch; some dado rails, shutters, and panelled reveals; in north wing, former later billiard room. HISTORICAL NOTE: originally built for a tanning family with tannery to rear. Records refer to rebuilding c1800. District Council occupation was from 1937-1990; some decoration and furnishings removed at that time were restored 1992. The design of the building is related to that of nearby Caldewell, near Pershore. (BoE: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 243; ).
Listing NGR: SO9494345876
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474492
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 243
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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