6 AND 10, CASTLE STREET
6 AND 10, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063798
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 6 AND 10, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6 AND 10, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063798
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 6 AND 10, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6 AND 10, CASTLE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 6 AND 10, CASTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84741 55408
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455SE CASTLE STREET
620-1/12/148 (North side)
08/3/74 Nos.6 AND 10
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE STREET
(North side)
Nos.6, 8 AND 10
(including former No.12))
II
Linked semi-detached villas, that to right probably built as
single dwelling; now offices. Numbered right to left,
described left to right. Probably early C19 with later
additions and alterations including formation of link and
sub-division and addition of third storey to right-hand villa.
Subject to comprehensive scheme of restoration and repair
c1998 following years of dereliction. Orange-red brick with
hipped slate roofs, concealed to right house. Stone sills,
projecting rendered band to right house indicates original
eaves level. Party wall stacks to left house, end stacks to
right. Wrought-iron balcony balustrade. Both villas are of
double-depth plan with hall and staircase located between
front and rear rooms. Left-hand house, no. 10 (includes former
no. 12): 2 storeys plus cellar and attic, 2 first-floor
windows, 8/8 sashes in plain reveals under flat gauged brick
arches, similar pair of windows to ground-floor; cambered roof
dormer to right with 3/3 sliding sashes. Matching entrances to
left and right, steps to five-panel replacement doors, radial
and segmental pattern fanlight, fluted pilaster doorcase with
open pediment. Right-hand house, no. 6 (includes former no.
8): 3 storeys plus cellar. 3 first-floor windows, central
French window, margin glazed, overlight has Gothic tracery,
balcony with traceried balustrade; flanked by 8/8 sashes,
similar sashes to ground-floor, 4/4 sashes to second-floor,
all in plain reveals under flat gauged brick arches. Central
entrance, 5-panel replacement door, radial and segmental
pattern fanlight, moulded architrave with semi-circular head.
Entrance to former no. 8 which was situated in linking
brickwork to facades now blocked in matching masonry.
INTERIOR: noted as containing some original features including
staircase to no. 6, and no. 8, both with square balusters and
wreathed handrails, stone-flagged floors to former
ground-floor service rooms, and cast-iron fireplace. Virtually
all other internal joinery and decorative
plasterwork has been renewed although based on original
details.
HISTORICAL NOTE: 1886 O.S. map shows buildings linked and
right-hand villa as 2 dwellings
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488631
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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