Hostel House
HOSTEL HOUSE, 5, COLLEGE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063819
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Hostel House
- Statutory Address:
- HOSTEL HOUSE, 5, COLLEGE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063819
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Hostel House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOSTEL HOUSE, 5, COLLEGE GREEN
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:
- HOSTEL HOUSE, 5, COLLEGE GREEN
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 85011 54392
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554SW COLLEGE GREEN
620-1/20/160 (South side)
22/05/54 No.5
Hostel House
(Formerly Listed as:
COLLEGE GREEN
(South side)
No.5)
GV II
House. Mid C18 with later additions and alterations. New wing
to rear right 1906 by A. Hill Parker, replaced coach house and
granary. Painted brick with stone sills. Plain clay tile roof,
dentilled eaves and parapeted end-gables. 3 brick stacks to
rear roof slope, all with oversailing detail and pots. Timber
door canopy
PLAN: Double-fronted, double-depth 2 storeys and attics.
2-window range to left projects forward under hipped roof.
Full-height canted bay to right under hipped roof. 7 (2:2:3)
first-floor windows. 6/6 sashes throughout, those to bay in
plain reveals otherwise near-flush, all with sills and flat
gauged brick arches with capped keystones; 2 centre
first-floor windows have thick glazing bars. Stone step to
right of entre entrance, 6-panel door, all raised and fielded;
3-pane overlight; corniced canopy on shaped brackets. 3
cambered-roof dormers with paired side-hung casements of 6, 8,
and 3-panes.
INTERIOR: early C19 joinery, including panelled doors in
moulded timber architraves, and marble fireplaces. Staircase
of 1906, with tapered newels and stick balusters.
All the listed buildings in College Green are part of a
significant group forming the setting for Worcester Cathedral
(qv) to the north side. The rear boundary wall to Nos. 2-6
College Green (qqv) is part of the Monastic Precinct Wall
(Scheduled Ancient Monument).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334; Worcester Cathedral
Publications: Knowles Joan M: College Green Worcester
1800-1900: Worcester: 1995-).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488652
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Knowles, J M, College Green Worcester 1800-1900, (1995)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 334
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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