South Gatepier, Quadrant Wall, Railings And Pier At Entrance To Perdiswell Park

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.

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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).