Description

REDDITCH B off HIGH STREET (west side)
SP 06 SW Feckenham

4/99 Dunstall Court (formerly listed
as Dunstall Court and barn and
3.10.85 stables about 10 yards East of)

GV II

House. Mid-C19. Red brick with ashlar dressings; fishscale-tiled roofs
partly behind parapets with finials at gable ends and Bartisan-style pro-
jections at the lower corners of each gable. Roughly U-plan, the main
entrance front on the south side of the south wing. Two storeys, attic
and cellar with chamfered plinth and moulded cornice. Jacobethan style.
South entrance front: three bays; outer bays have shallow full-height
gabled bay windows with drip mould above ground floor windows and sill
string beneath first floor windows; ground floor windows are 4-light
mullion and transom type, first floor windows are 4-light mullioned type
with no transom; louvred loophole in apex of both gables; central bay
has projecting gabled porch wing and the Bartisan-style projections are
larger with domical finials and are continued to ground floor level to
form slender octagonal piers; the first floor sill string and drip mould
to both floors continue around the piers; first floor has an oriel window
corbelled out from the wall surface with a hipped roof behind an embattled
parapet and three narrow rectangular lights; there is a louvred rectangular
light in the gable apex; entrance has a basket archway within a moulded
square-headed opening flanked by narrow pointed openings; within is a
similar arrangement of openings; the archway has a glazed door and the
pointed openings are also glazed. Blank heraldic shaped panels in apex
of each gable end. Interior not inspected. East elevation has three C20
dormers. The house is probably a rebuilding of a C17 or older structure.
It is included as a well-detailed example of C19 work.

Listing NGR: SP0095462055

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26392119

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)