Water Gate House and Attached Walls and Gate to East
WATER GATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE TO EAST, 12B, COLLEGE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1063824
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Water Gate House and Attached Walls and Gate to East
- Statutory Address:
- WATER GATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE TO EAST, 12B, COLLEGE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1063824
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Water Gate House and Attached Walls and Gate to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER GATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE TO EAST, 12B, 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:
- WATER GATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE TO EAST, 12B, 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 84907 54425
Details
WORCESTER
SO85SW COLLEGE GREEN
620-1/3/165 (West side)
22/05/54 No.12B
Water Gate House and
attached walls and gate
to east
(Formerly Listed as:
COLLEGE GREEN
(West side)
No.12A
Water Gate House)
GV II*
House built over gateway. C17 house with C19 additions and
alterations on C14 gateway. House of pinkish-orange brick, now
painted to front facade, with plain tile roof and 3 tall
pinkish-orange brick stacks with oversailing course and pots;
gateway of coursed red sandstone. House: T-plan. Single storey
with attic to gable. Entrance to angle, flight of 10 steps to
4-flush-panel door, adjacent to steps from Cathedral Green
down towards the river (see below). Casement window to gable.
Casements to return. Rear has 2 casement windows under
cambered arches. Gateway has 4-centred arch, plain vault and
grooves for portcullis. Stairwell to east: The south wall of
the medieval gateway continues to extend eastwards, where it
returns southwards up a flight of stone steps to reach the
Cathedral Green; stone wall to south is surmounted by a mid
C19 stone-coped brick wall with capped end pier and similar
but lower wall to the return which flanks the east side of the
steps; mid C19 wrought-iron gate and railings to north side.
INTERIOR (house): not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The gateway abuts the monastic precinct walls
in Kleve Walk, qv.
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 JM: College Green,
Worcester: 1800-1900: Worcester: 1995-: 9).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488657
- 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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