Description

In the entry for:-
PUDLESTONE
SO 55 NE
Pudlestone Court
10/10000
II
The address shall be amended to read:

SO 55 NE PUDLESTONE
10/10000 Pudleston Court
II

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The following building shall be added to the list:-

PUDLESTONE
SO 55 NE
10/10000 Pudlestone Court
II
Country house. 1846-47 by Brearley of Liverpool for Elias
Chadwick. Coursed pink sandstone rubble with grey dressed
quoins. Slate roofs with embattled parapets. Stone stacks with
grouped octagonal ashlar shafts.
PLAN: Principal rooms arranged around large central hall entered
on north side through a porte-cochere and vestibule with a tower
above and with a service wing on the west (right) side.
Castellated Tudor-Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical north front with 3-storey
tower to left of centre with ashlar porte-cochere with 4-centred
arches, polygonal turrets and battlements with shield on front.
Set back on left is blind wall with loop on first floor and
corbelled octagonal turret in the angle. Slightly recessed bay
on right of tower with 2 windows on ground floor and oriel above
with moulded corbel, battlements and narrow side lights. Moulded
stone mullion-transom windows with leaded panes and hoodmoulds
and moulded string courses. Service wing set back on right
(west), 2 storeys and attic, and with tall clock tower and walled
service yard in front with arched entrance and coal-house on
higher ground level to west. East garden front: 1:3:1 bays, end
bays project as squat towers, the right-hand with 2-storey canted
bay window, the left with shallow bay window on ground floor.
Rear elevation (S), recessed centre, wing on left with octagonal
corner turret and small embattled garden pavilion at end of wall
on left; small C20 extension on right.
INTERIOR: largely unaltered C19 interior. Large galleried hall
with panelled ceiling with pendants and elaborate Jacobethan
chimneypiece in inqlenook. Classical portal at foot of stairs.
Secondary stairs and many other features including good
chimneypieces, panelling, cornices, doors and other joinery etc.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, Ancient Monuments Society.

Listing NGR: SO5596159278

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540220

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)