Description

BREWOOD C.P. BARGATE STREET
SJ 8808-8908 (South side)

13/3 No. 1 (Speedwell Castle)
16.5.53

G.V. I

House. Mid C18. Red brick; hipped slate roof;
brick stacks; Batty Langley style Gothick. 3 storeys
with modillion cornice and parapet; 1:1:1 windows; 3
storeyed canted bays to left and right of 5 lights;
glazing bar sashes, on the ground and first floors the
glazing pattern is not original and was formerly based
on octagons; pointed windows on second floor; playful
alternation of round and ogee heads on ground and
first floors; all with decorative plaster surrounds,
the round headed windows with key blocks, the others
surmounted by acorns; plaster sills to all windows,
those on the canted bays continuous with brackets at
ground and first floor levels; central door with
octagonal panels surrounded by an ogee headed portico
with gnome in place of finial at time of resurvey and supported
on clustered, banded columns. Interior: Chinese
Chippendale staircase; east room ground floor has
pedimented doorcases and decorative cornice; west room
first floor has original fireplace with chequered
frieze flanked by original cupboards; east room first
floor has a similar fireplace with shaped, fretted friezes,
shaped surrounds, enriched dados and cornices, spine beams
with edge rolls; several original doors. Reputed to have
been built by William Rock (d.1753) from the proceeds of
betting on the racehorse Speedwell. V.C.H. Vol. V 1959.

Listing NGR: SJ8833008812

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Speedwell Castle at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q17021900 Q26313248

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)