Description

SO 87 NW BEWDLEY CP KIDDERMISNTER ROAD (south side)
Wribbenhall

3/95 Spring Grove

GV II

Small country house, now banqueting suite. 1787 to 1790 for Samuel Skey,
with mid-C19 extension and some late C20 alterations. Ashlar with hipped
stone tile roof, extension stuccoed brick with slate roof. Original house:
two storeys, dentilled stone cornice, central pediment over slightly advanced
portion, 2 + 3 + 2 windows: glazing bar sashes in moulded architraves with
wooden blind boxes and a sill band; ground floor: 2 + 2 + 2 windows, central
part further advanced with balustrade and dentilled moulded cornice, below
two pairs of Ionic pilasters flank two semi-circular headed windows, entrance
has a semi-circular head with fanlight and 2-leaf door. Interior: most of
the plaster cornices survive, as do two marble columns in entrance hall;
open well staircase has cast-iron balustrade with an octagonal dome above.
The extension to the right is Italianate, with a three-storey tower to the
right-hand corner with pyramidal roof. (J R Burton, 1883, A History of Bewdley
with concise accounts of some neighbouring parishes, p 61).

Listing NGR: SO8025175673

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26392067

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings