North Gate Pier, Quadrant Wall, Railings And Pier At Entrance To Perdiswell Park

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SO85NE DROITWICH ROAD 620-1/2/216 (East side) 22/05/54 North gate pier, quadrant wall, railings and pier at entrance to Perdiswell Park (Formerly Listed as: PERDISWELL PARK Stable block of former Perdiswell Hall, Gate piers at drive entrance)

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Formerly known as: Coach House. Includes: North gatepier, quadrant wall, railings and pier at entrance PERDISWELL PARK. Gate pier, quadrant wall with railings and end pier. Gatepier dated 1788 to frieze, with quadrant walls, pier and railings probably c1880. Rusticated ashlar pier approximately 3.5 metres high with Coade stone panel to frieze and surmounting urn. Frieze shows reclining female with tall ship and chart figure representing 'Navigation' and is inscribed 'COADE'S Lithod-y- LONDON 1788'. Rough coursed stone quadrant walls approximately 1 metre igh 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 South gate pier, quadrant wall, railings and pier (qv). 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).