Description

WORSLEY WORSLEY ROAD
SD 70 SE
(north side)
2/72 Drywood Hall
- II
-

House, now Bridgewater School. "BT 1855" above door.
Timber-framed with slate and graduated stone slate roof. 6
bays and 2 storeys with wings to rear possibly of an
incorporating earlier work and C20 addition to left which is
not included in this entry. Picturesquely composed
asymmetrical elevation with 2-storey porch in bay 3, gables
in bays 1 and 5 and gabled dormer windows in bays 2 and 4.
Gabled porch, the upper room resting on circular columns via
carved brackets. The panelling in the gable is decorative
and below the 5-light timber mullion window is the
Bridgewater coat of arms. The principal room in bay 4 has
an 8-light mullion and transom window which is set in behind
an enriched bressumer on carved diagonal braces. Other
windows are 4 and 5-light mullion and transoms on the ground
floor (the latter a square bay window) and 3 and 4-light
mullioned windows on the first floor. 4 brick ridge chimney
stacks with diagonally set shafts. A 5-light window at rear
with arched lights and flush chamfered mullions may be
reused from an earlier building. Interior: panelled doors,
a timber staircase, various fire surrounds in stone and cast
iron and ovolo-moulded ceiling beams to the principal room
which has a neo-Jacobean fire surround. In the C16 an
earlier house on the site was the home of the Massey family.

Listing NGR: SD7544300548

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576706

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)