Description

PERSHORE

SO9545 BRIDGE STREET
648-1/5/13 (East side)
11/02/65 No.17
Perrott House
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
(East side)
Perrott House)

GV I

House. c1760. Possibly by Robert Adam. For Judge Perrot (Baron
of the Exchequer). Red brick, with some yellow, in Flemish
bond, the rear and left return stuccoed; painted and
part-rendered stone dressings. Hipped roof, of plain tile and
Welsh slate, with brick end-stacks, a small off-ridge stack,
and another to rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3 bays. Moulded plinth; rusticated
end-pilasters supporting deep moulded cornice and linked by
1st-floor plat- and sill-bands. Central bay projects under
corniced pediment.
On 2nd floor, tripartite windows with bracketed sills,
pilasters, cornices and sashes of 4/4:6/6:4/4 panes.
On 1st and ground floors outer bays have 2-storey corniced
canted bay windows with pitched lead roofs; tripartite windows
with 4/4:6/6:4/4-pane sashes on 1st floor; and Venetian
windows below, which have 4/4:11/6:4/4-pane sashes with radial
glazing bars to centre, pilasters and moulded cornices.
Similar Venetian window with bracketed sill to centre on 1st
floor. Cellar grilles.
Central doorcase has 3 nosed steps up to 8-panel door below
deep fanlight with decorative glazing and archivolt with block
voussoirs; side-lights with octagonal panes flanked by
corniced pilasters supporting entablature and rising from deep
plinth. Iron scraper.
Rear: main wing has Venetian windows on ground and first
floors, triple sashes above, and central octagonally-paned
glazed door up stone steps with side-lights and arched hood
supported by wrought-iron brackets.
INTERIOR: fine plasterwork to walls and ceilings in Adam
style; mahogony 6-panel doors, reportedly replacements of
earlier painted pine doors; panelled doors and shutters
throughout.
"Adam Room" to rear left has richly decorative plasterwork
ceiling and walls; oval mirror in plaster frame above
grey-marble fireplace with decorative mantelshelf; chair rail;

panelled walls.
Dining Room to front left has ceiling with painted reclining
Classical figure and busts; decorative cornice; grey-marble
fireplace with Adam surround.
Front Hall has octagonal-paned glazing to lobby similar to
rear entrance.
Library to front right has remodelled marble fireplace with
inset steel firebasket; cornice; replacement chair rail.
Dog-leg stair with stick balusters, moulded handrail,
restrained panels and glazed skylight.
(BoE: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 242;
Country Life: Little B: Georgian Beauty in an Abbey Town).

Listing NGR: SO9505645656

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530519

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