Heron'S Tower About 35 Yards South-East Of Westwood House

SO 86 SE WESTWOOD CP WESTWOOD PARK

4/244 Heron's Tower about 35 yards south-east - of Westwood House 14.3.69 GV I

Garden pavilion, now house. 1660-70 for Sir John Pakington, as part of the alterations to his grandfather's hunting lodge, Westwood House (qv) to convert it into the main family home; restored by Sir Reginald Blomfield early C20 and altered mid-C20. Red brick in English bond with sandstone ashlar dressings and untouched by classicism apart from fishscale-tiled, two-stage ogee cupola with cut finial. Square plan; three storeys on chamfered plinth with moulded eaves cornice. First floor has stone mullioned and transomed windows, and second floor has 2-light mullioned windows. Former main entrance in north elevation has a studded door and rectangular light to left; present main entrance in C20 single storey hipped-roof extension to east elevation. Upper south-east corners each have tourelle-like stone chimneys with octagonal shafts. There were originally four garden pavilions linked to the house and the gatehouse (qv) by a series of low walls forming a dramatic composition, as shown by Kip's illustration of c1698. The two westernmost pavilions and all the enclosures were removed during the C18. (CL xii, 689; Lxiv, 50, 94; cxiii, 1698; cxxxiv, 738; VCH III (i); BoE).

Listing NGR: SO8758163914