Perrott House

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SO9545 BRIDGE STREET 648-1/5/13 (East side) 11/02/65 No.17 Perrott House (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET (East side) Perrott House)

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House. c1760. Possibly by Robert Adam. For Judge Perrot (Baron of the Exchequer). Red brick, with some yellow, in Flemish bond, the rear and left return stuccoed; painted and part-rendered stone dressings. Hipped roof, of plain tile and Welsh slate, with brick end-stacks, a small off-ridge stack, and another to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3 bays. Moulded plinth; rusticated end-pilasters supporting deep moulded cornice and linked by 1st-floor plat- and sill-bands. Central bay projects under corniced pediment. On 2nd floor, tripartite windows with bracketed sills, pilasters, cornices and sashes of 4/4:6/6:4/4 panes. On 1st and ground floors outer bays have 2-storey corniced canted bay windows with pitched lead roofs; tripartite windows with 4/4:6/6:4/4-pane sashes on 1st floor; and Venetian windows below, which have 4/4:11/6:4/4-pane sashes with radial glazing bars to centre, pilasters and moulded cornices. Similar Venetian window with bracketed sill to centre on 1st floor. Cellar grilles. Central doorcase has 3 nosed steps up to 8-panel door below deep fanlight with decorative glazing and archivolt with block voussoirs; side-lights with octagonal panes flanked by corniced pilasters supporting entablature and rising from deep plinth. Iron scraper. Rear: main wing has Venetian windows on ground and first floors, triple sashes above, and central octagonally-paned glazed door up stone steps with side-lights and arched hood supported by wrought-iron brackets. INTERIOR: fine plasterwork to walls and ceilings in Adam style; mahogony 6-panel doors, reportedly replacements of earlier painted pine doors; panelled doors and shutters throughout. "Adam Room" to rear left has richly decorative plasterwork ceiling and walls; oval mirror in plaster frame above grey-marble fireplace with decorative mantelshelf; chair rail;

panelled walls. Dining Room to front left has ceiling with painted reclining Classical figure and busts; decorative cornice; grey-marble fireplace with Adam surround. Front Hall has octagonal-paned glazing to lobby similar to rear entrance. Library to front right has remodelled marble fireplace with inset steel firebasket; cornice; replacement chair rail. Dog-leg stair with stick balusters, moulded handrail, restrained panels and glazed skylight. (BoE: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 242; Country Life: Little B: Georgian Beauty in an Abbey Town).

Listing NGR: SO9505645656