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a line from the centre of each corner of the house, and communicate, by doors on each floor, with the central building. At some distance from each wing, yet opposite to them, are small square towers that were once connected by walls with the main building; but the walls have been removed, or fallen, and the towers now stand alone.
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Situated on a rising ground, the house greatly resembles a Norman chateau; it is built of brick with stone quoins and parapets. The core of the house dates from about 1600 and is square and three storeys high; the saloon occupied the first floor, and was lighted by large bay windows. Wings project in
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Writing in 1891 Laura
Valentine commented that the house was in the centre of a large and well-wooded park, with a lake of some size to the east, and a lovely avenues of grand old trees radiating from it. The front of the mansion commanded a view of the lake. From Windows in the library a grand view
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The gatehouse is immediately in front of the house at some little distance in advance; the gate has a red brick lodge on each side of it with ornamental gables and pinnacles. The gate between them is ornamented with the heraldic bearings of the family, the mullet or star of five points, and below
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was obtained over "a most beautiful and undulating country". The lake (which occupies 60 acres (24 ha)), the radiating avenues, and the ancient oaks added to its beauty. "There is, indeed, all over
Worcestershire a soft beauty of landscape that is very bewitching".
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them the garbs or wheat-sheaves. These bearings are also sculptured on the parapets, the wheatsheaves forming the pilasters and the mullets the balusters. The timber-work over the gate, with its high pointed roof and small pinnacle, is very picturesque.
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on 6 January 1917. The house and estate were divided and sold on the death of the third and last Baron
Doverdale (grandson of the first baron) in 1949. All three Barons Doverdale are buried at the Parish Church of St Mary & All Saints,
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Although the house and large lake remain, the park is now a shadow of its former self. For example, the only remaining tree-lined avenue is a straight one that leads from
Droitwich to the gatehouse.
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nuns. Over the centuries the convent grew until it ultimately numbered eighteen sisters. The last prioress, Joyce Acton, received at the
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at his political rival, Sir John Pakington of Westwood House" (Sir
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