South Gatepier, Quadrant Wall, Railings and Pier at Entrance to Perdiswell Park
SOUTH GATEPIER, QUADRANT WALL, RAILINGS AND PIER AT ENTRANCE TO PERDISWELL PARK, DROITWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389773
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- South Gatepier, Quadrant Wall, Railings and Pier at Entrance to Perdiswell Park
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH GATEPIER, QUADRANT WALL, RAILINGS AND PIER AT ENTRANCE TO PERDISWELL PARK, DROITWICH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389773
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- South Gatepier, Quadrant Wall, Railings and Pier at Entrance to Perdiswell Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH GATEPIER, QUADRANT WALL, RAILINGS AND PIER AT ENTRANCE TO PERDISWELL PARK, DROITWICH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- SOUTH GATEPIER, QUADRANT WALL, RAILINGS AND PIER AT ENTRANCE TO PERDISWELL PARK, PERDISWELL PARK
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:
- SOUTH GATEPIER, QUADRANT WALL, RAILINGS AND PIER AT ENTRANCE TO PERDISWELL PARK, DROITWICH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH GATEPIER, QUADRANT WALL, RAILINGS AND PIER AT ENTRANCE TO PERDISWELL PARK, PERDISWELL PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 85011 57431
Details
WORCESTER
SO85NE DROITWICH ROAD
620-1/2/217 (East side)
22/05/54 South gatepier, quadrant
wall, railings and pier
at entrance to
Perdiswell Park
(Formerly Listed as:
PERDISWELL PARK
(East side)
Stable block of former
Perdiswell Hall. Gate
piers at drive entrance.
GV II
Formerly known as: Coach House.
Includes: South gatepier, quadrant wall, railings and pier at
entrance PERDISWELL PARK.
Gate pier, quadrant wall with railings and end pier. Gatepier
1788, with quadrant walls, pier and railings probably c1880;
urn renewed c1980s. Rusticated ashlar pier approximately 3.5
metres high with Coade stone panel to frieze and surmounting
urn. Frieze shows reclining female figure representing
'Agriculture' and is inscribed 'COADE ...' (otherwise worn).
Rough coursed stone uadrant walls approximately 1 metre high
with curved ashlar copings and cast-iron railings with
round-arched arcade and spearhead bars, extending for
approximately 12 metres to rough coursed stone end pier with
peaked cap approximately 2 metres high.
HISTORICAL NOTE: forms the entrance to the former Perdiswell
Hall (demolished 1956), and now to Perdiswell Park together
with North gate pier, quadrant wall, railings and pier (qv).
The North gate pier is dated 1788. The Stable Block and walled
garden of former Perdiswell Hall remain (qv).
Pevsner describes the Coade stone reliefs as 'beautiful'.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 335; NMR: Photographs).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488724
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 335
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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