Description

SO 74 SE COLWALL CP B4232 (west side)

4/53 Perrycroft

18.2.70

GV II*

House. Begun 1893 and dated 1895 by C F A Voysey for J Wilson, a railway magnate, in 'eclectic' Arts and Crafts and incipient Art Nouveau styles. Roughcast, grey slate 45 degree hipped roof with tapered finials to 2 hip junctions, deep eaves supported by slender iron brackets, 5 stacks 3 of which are battered and one punctured by an arch. 'U' plan, service wing in longer north-east arm, the bottom of the 'U' is the garden front: 2 storeys, 5 windows in 4 groups, first floor left and centre advanced. Ground floor has 16 and 12 pane metal casements separated by wooden mullions; first floor has 4 and 8 but mainly 12 pane windows, the 4 pane one arranged so that each superimposed pane pivots in parallel; left hand and central upper windows project and are supported on brackets following timber-frame precedent. The whole first floor elevation is cantilevered as if jettied over the ground floor to different degrees, yet controlled by battered buttresses to the sides. Entrance through 6 panelled door, the top 4 lights glazed; flat canopy, an integral bench to left and retractable roller sun- awning. A large bell hangs from a bracket supporting the canopy to right hand side. Inside the 'U': North front: 8 pane glazing bar windows on ground floor arranged to east of entrance and a band of similar windows set side by side to form a gallery-effect on first floor; flat roofed porch supported by 2 small and attenuated Tuscan type columns, leading to enriched strap-hinged ledged entrance door; mounting block to east. West side of service wing: different combinations of 4, 5, 6 and 8 pane glazing bar windows irregularly placed; entrance via porch to north side of 3 storey pagoda-like tower along- side Romanesque-style balustrading consisting of 5 marble columns with acanthus capitals separating Art Nouveau rainwater goods from contrasting austere pier finished in plain render. Interior: low entrance hall with plain wood open- well staircase and square section balusters. Ground floor fireplaces survive largely unaltered: those in entrance hall and kitchen have slender integral columns. In the entrance lobby from the garden front is combined fireplace and cupboard with strap-hinge decoration of peacocks in Viking Ringerike Style. Ground floor doors survive largely as first designed; first floor doors replaced. Safe by Whitfield and Company of Birmingham. Morris and Company wall-paper noted by Pevsner in 1963 has disappeared. Forms group with garden summer-house, walls, dovecote, lodge and stables (qv). One of Voysey's best Gousts.

Listing NGR: SO7653641803

External Links

• Perrycroft at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17537762

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