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Latitude: 52.1818 / 52°10'54"N
Longitude: -2.2367 / 2°14'12"W
OS Eastings: 383914
OS Northings: 253749
OS Grid: SO839537
Mapcode National: GBR 1G9.5BX
Mapcode Global: VH92T.5FX9
Plus Code: 9C4V5QJ7+P8
Entry Name: Walls and Piers and Gates and Gate Lodge to Pitmaston House and Pitmaston Park
Listing Date: 12 June 2001
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1389990
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488941
ID on this website: 101389990
Location: St John's, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR2
County: Worcestershire
District: Worcester
Electoral Ward/Division: Bedwardine
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Worcester
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: St John in Bedwardine
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Wall
WORCESTER
SO85SW MALVERN ROAD
620-1/3/429 (West side)
Walls, piers, gates and
gate lodge to Pitmaston
House and Pitmaston Park
GV II
Walls, piers, gates and gate lodge. Mid C19. Coursed limestone
with ashlar piers and cast-iron gates; lodge has renewed plain
tile roof and 2 tall diamond stacks with stepped oversailing
course and pots to angle.
PLAN: from left (south), end pier and quadrant wall approximately
4 metres high extends for approximately 12 metres, interrupted by
pedestrian entrance, to T-plan lodge; quadrant walls,
approximately 6 metres long with pair of gate piers, square on
plan, and double gates between, then boundary wall extending for
approximately 100 metres with upwardly projecting cylindrical
'pier' at approximately 25-metre intervals and cylindrical pier
to north end.
Victorian Gothic style.
Lodge: 2 storeys, single-bay gable end to street incorporated
into wall. Gable end has oriel window to ground floor with
casements and single light to first floor with ashlar surround
and sill; decorative barge boards with quatrefoils. Right return
has 3 casement windows in raised ashlar surrounds. Entrance at
rear a renewed, art-glazed door in chamfered architrave and with
single light in gable. Pedestrian entrance has cambered-arched,
ridged plank door in cambered surround. Gatepiers have traceried
cross-gabled caps, otherwise piers have turret roofs. Walls have
steeply-chamfered copings. Double gates have 2 levels of bars
with tow of quatrefoils between and upper 'tracery', surmounted
by spearhead finials.
A significant streetscape feature, forming an integral part of
the setting for Pitmaston House (qv).
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