Castle House
CASTLE HOUSE, 6, COLEGE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063820
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Castle House
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE HOUSE, 6, COLEGE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063820
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Castle House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE HOUSE, 6, COLEGE 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:
- CASTLE HOUSE, 6, COLEGE 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 84997 54393
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554SW COLLEGE GREEN
620-1/20/161 (South side)
05/04/71 No.6
Castle House
GV II
Large house, now part of school. Abuts No.5 to left. Late C18
origins, partially rebuilt c1900 by A. Hill Parker (architect)
and Stokes Brothers (builders) following extensive fire; later
additions and alterations. Painted stucco, painted rough-cast
and painted brick, stone dressings; tile-hung second-floor.
Plain clay tile roofs, that to right hipped. Modillioned
eaves. Bracketted eaves to gable of canted bay. End stacks,
brick to left, stucco to right, all with oversailing detail
and pots. Timber doorcase. Double-fronted, double-depth plan.
Through-passage to right ground-floor flanked by sandstone
wall (qv) to west. 2 and 3-storeys with attic. 4 first-floor
windows. Stone detailing includes all sills and moulded string
to heads of ground-floor windows. 2-storey range to left set
back slightly, full-height canted bay, centre mullions,
4/1:4/1:4/1:4/1. Windows to main range are all 6/6. Those to
ground and first-floor windows are near-flush with moulded
architraves. 6/6 sashes to second-floor. Central 6-panel door,
top pair glazed, raised and fielded to centre, bottom pair
flush-beaded. 3-pane overlight; 'Tower of Winds' style columns
to doorcase, frieze and cornice. Door to passage at extreme
right, 6-panel raised and fielded with bolection moulding;
moulded architrave, small cornice. Gabled dormer with paired
6-pane side-hung casements. Further ranges to left return and
to rear. Lower part of right-return wall (qv) is sandstone
ashlar, part of another earlier structure.
INTERIOR: late C18 joinery, including panelled doors in
moulded timber architraves; late C19 decorative plasterwork to
first-floor right; staircase and fire surrounds with Art
Nouveau detail of c1900.
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:
- 488653
- 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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