Dunstall Court

REDDITCH B off HIGH STREET (west side) SP 06 SW Feckenham

4/99 Dunstall Court (formerly listed as Dunstall Court and barn and 3.10.85 stables about 10 yards East of)

GV II

House. Mid-C19. Red brick with ashlar dressings; fishscale-tiled roofs partly behind parapets with finials at gable ends and Bartisan-style pro- jections at the lower corners of each gable. Roughly U-plan, the main entrance front on the south side of the south wing. Two storeys, attic and cellar with chamfered plinth and moulded cornice. Jacobethan style. South entrance front: three bays; outer bays have shallow full-height gabled bay windows with drip mould above ground floor windows and sill string beneath first floor windows; ground floor windows are 4-light mullion and transom type, first floor windows are 4-light mullioned type with no transom; louvred loophole in apex of both gables; central bay has projecting gabled porch wing and the Bartisan-style projections are larger with domical finials and are continued to ground floor level to form slender octagonal piers; the first floor sill string and drip mould to both floors continue around the piers; first floor has an oriel window corbelled out from the wall surface with a hipped roof behind an embattled parapet and three narrow rectangular lights; there is a louvred rectangular light in the gable apex; entrance has a basket archway within a moulded square-headed opening flanked by narrow pointed openings; within is a similar arrangement of openings; the archway has a glazed door and the pointed openings are also glazed. Blank heraldic shaped panels in apex of each gable end. Interior not inspected. East elevation has three C20 dormers. The house is probably a rebuilding of a C17 or older structure. It is included as a well-detailed example of C19 work.

Listing NGR: SP0095462055