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Walls and Piers and Gates and Gate Lodge to Pitmaston House and Pitmaston Park

A Grade II Listed Building in Worcester, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

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

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Description



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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