Description

ELMBRIDGE CP -
SO 97 SW
3/31 Purshall Hall

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29.12.52
GV II

House. Probably C15, altered C17 and mid-C18. Timber-frame clad in
brick, hipped tile roof. Four framed bray cruck house embedded within
later work. Two storeys, bands to both storeys, six windows: timber
cross windows with plastered wedge lintels partially concealing segmental
relieving arches, window to right in portion of brickwork straight jointed
to the rest; gabled two storey porch off centre right with brick coped
verge, ball finials to kneelers, finial in form of a face to apex, blank
circular datestone in gable, cogged brick cornice, band to ground floor
and vertical bands below; entrance has plastered semi-circular head with
keystone and plain imposts; first floor window has two lights with
chamfered mullion and jambs. Access refused, described from photographs
in the Hereford and Worcester Photographic Survey, Hereford and Worcester
Record Office. The house had a Roman Catholic chapel from 1742 until about
1796. (T G Holt 1981, A Note on Purshall Hall Chapel, Worcestershire Recusant
38, p 45; BoE p 142; VCH 3, p 63).

Listing NGR: SO9008970020

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26510100

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)