12 AND 12A, COLLEGE GREEN
12 AND 12A, COLLEGE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063823
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 12 AND 12A, COLLEGE GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- 12 AND 12A, COLLEGE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063823
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 12 AND 12A, COLLEGE GREEN
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12 AND 12A, 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:
- 12 AND 12A, 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 84928 54411
Details
WORCESTER
SO85SW COLLEGE GREEN
620-1/3/164 (West side)
22/05/54 Nos.12 AND 12A
(Formerly Listed as:
COLLEGE GREEN
(West side)
No.12)
GV II
House, now school. Late C16/early C17, with earlier origins
and later additions and alterations c1844-5 for Canon Ryle
Wood by Harvey Eginton, architect with Mr Fortey, builder at a
cost of ,750. On site of monastic shrine keeper (or tumbary).
Brick, painted with timber-framing to gable end and plain tile
roof; mid C19 brick diagonal stacks, with axial and left end
stacks and 2 further stacks to rear range.
PLAN: 3-unit plan with through-passage to left of axial stack
heating central hall chamber. Exterior: Late C18 rear right
wing, with other rear extensions of mid C19. 2 storeys, partly
on basement, 2 first-floor windows with ranges to west (rear)
and south. Off-centre left entrance a 4-panel door in plain
architrave and Doric porch. First floor has 8/8 sashes, ground
floor has 2/2 sashes; a cambered-arched opening, now blocked,
between windows to each floor. Right return: first floor has
6/6 sash; square panel of timber-framing in gable and 9-pane
fixed light window in flush frame. Left (south) return has
mainly 4- and 6-light mullion and transom windows. Rear range
has 8/8 sashes.
INTERIOR: clear evidence of former timber-frame in mostly
concealed front range; early C19 panelled doors, cornicing and
joinery and mid C19 open-well stair with 'Gothic Revival'
detail to rear.
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 Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 316; Knowles J: College Green:
Worcester. 1800-1900.: Worcester: 1995-: 23; RCHME: NMR:
Photograph).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488656
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Knowles, J M, College Green Worcester 1800-1900, (1995)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 316
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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