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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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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Official list entry

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.