Stable Block Of Former Perdiswell Hall And Attached Walls And Outbuilding

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WORCESTER DROITWICH ROAD (OFF) (East side) Stable block of former Perdiswell Hall and attached walls and outbuilding

(Formerly Listed as: PERDISWELL PARK Stable block of former Perdiswell Hall. Gate piers at drive entrance)

22/05/54

GV II

Formerly known as: Coach House. Includes: Stable block of former Perdiswell Hall with attached walls and outbuilding PERDISWELL PARK. Stable block and house, now offices, with attached walls to walled garden. c1780 with some C20 rebuilding. Reddish-orange brick in English Garden Wall bond, painted and stuccoed to front facade of stable range and house, with slate roof to stable block and house, brick stacks, stone and brick copings to walls. Stable range of one-and-a-half storeys, seven bays, arranged 2:3:2. Central pedimented breakforward has full height round-arched opening with keystone; to either side are 6/6 cambered-arched sashes and recessed panels to upper stage. Continuous impost band. Outer ranges have 6/6 cambered-arched sashes to lower stage with fanlights with radial glazing bars above the impost band, all in wider and taller round-arched recesses. Windows in plain reveals and with sills. Roof hipped at right. Stack with oversailing course and ots to rear at left. House abuts at left: of 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. First-floor band. 6/6 cambered-arched sashes in plain reveals and with sills throughout. Entrance at right a 4-flush-panel door with cambered-arched fanlight in plain reveals. Roof hipped at left and with coped gable at right. Tall left end and rear stacks with oversailing course and pots. Walled garden walls abutt these buildings and forms part of rear stable block wall, approximately 35 metres x 60 metres and with off-centre dividing wall with lean-to sheds. Approximately 2.5 metres high. INTERIORS: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Perdiswell Hall was demolished in 1956. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 335; NMR: Photographs).