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PERSHORE

SO9545 BRIDGE STREET
648-1/5/62 (West side)
03/08/72 No.78
Manor House Hotel

GV II

Hotel. Mid C19. Stucco. Welsh-slate roof with oversailing
verges with bargeboards and deep eaves soffits, 4 brick ridge
stacks. Victorian Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: Bridge Street elevation: 3 storeys and cellar;
4-window range. Rusticated quoins and chamfered plinth with 2
cellar openings. Windows are 2-light mullion-and-transom with
plate glass casements, hoodmoulds, rusticated surrounds, and
projecting sills. Doorcase, on right, has hoodmould,
rusticated surround, overlight, decorative 4-panel door, and 2
stone steps.
Main, south, elevation (left return) is of 3 bays, the left
bay recessed, lower, and with additions to left and front; the
central bay with projecting 2-storey castellated bay; the
right bay gabled and with full-height bay-window. Rusticated
quoins.
Windows mostly as on Bridge Street elevation. Right bay: bay
window on 1st and 2nd floors is 5-sided and has
mullion-and-transom windows of 2:3:2: lights with plate glass
casements, and deep cornices below pitched roofs; on ground
floor, 4 French windows in rusticated surround.
Central bay: castellated bay has moulded strings, 2-light
1st-floor window with Gothick tracery, gabled porch with
pointed-arched entrance below hoodmould, inner door with
side-lights, and 2 windows on each floor of returns. Left bay
has quasi dormer with enriched barge boards and end stack on
left.
3 further 2-storey wings, one with decorative tiled roof and
dormers.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
An early example of Victorian Tudor style.
(BoE: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 243).

Listing NGR: SO9506845434