Description

SE 3519 and SE 3520 WARMFIELD-CUM-HEATH HEATH COMMON
(north side)

6/61 The West Pavilion
14.2.52 (formerly listed as
outbuildings and
stables)

GV I

Stables with accommodation above, now 4 flats. c1753 by John Carr for John Smyth.
Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. Classical. H-shaped.
2 storeys. 7 x 5 bay symmetrical facades. Quoins. Continuous plinth and sill
bands. South-east facade, facing Heath Hall (q.v.): central 3 bays break forward
and have: tall semicircular-arched entrance with massive parabolic-arched vault
leading through to rear; continuous impost band; windows have 18-pane sashes with
6-pane sashes above, flanking bays have a sash window with plaque above; pedimented
gable with dentils surmounted by clock tower with engaged Tuscan columns to corners
and circular recess for clock with arched cornice, the whole topped by circular
open rotunda with Tuscan columns and bell-shaped cap with ball finial surmounted
by weathervane. Bays 2 and 6 each have sash windows with plain stone surrounds.
Outer projecting bays each have a recessed archway in which is set a similar sash
window to each floor. Dentil cornice. Hipped roof with 2 ashlar ridge stacks.
Rear similarly fenestrated. Left-hand return, fronting the Common, has central
3 bays breaking forward under pedimented gable. Central recessed arch with sash
windows to each floor; bays either side have niches with plaques above. Outer
2 bays have a sash window to each floor.

With East Pavilion (q.v.) and Heath Hall forms part of a balanced composition.

Listing NGR: SE3554820210

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17528163

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)