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
List Entry Name:: 6 AND 10, CASTLE STREET
Statutory Address:: 6 AND 10, CASTLE STREET

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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.