7, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
7, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063838
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 7, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
- Statutory Address:
- 7, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063838
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 7, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
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:
- 7, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
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 85096 54489
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554SW COLLEGE PRECINCTS
620-1/20/178 (East side)
22/05/54 No.7
GV II
House, now offices. Early C18 with later additions and
alterations. L-plan with entrance hall to left and stairwell
between front and rear rooms. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish
bond with purple brick plinth, flat arches of gauged dark red
brick and ashlar sills, timber keystones and architrave; plain
tile roof; 2 right end brick stacks with pots; some
timber-framing to upper floors. 3 storeys with attic, 4
first-floor windows. Plinth. 3-course first- and second-floor
bands, that to first floor interrupted by doorcase. 2/2 horned
sashes to ground and first floors, 6/6 sashes to second floor,
all in flush frames and with flat arches of gauged brick,
keystones with raised and fielded panel and sills. Wide
moulded cornice. Left entrance, of late C18: 6-flush-panel
door with decorative panels, fluted frieze and fanlight with
ornate glazing bars; Pilastered doorcase has lozenge motif and
open dentil cornice. 3-course first- and second-floor bands.
INTERIOR: openwell staircase to full height with wreathed
handrail, turned balusters, 2 per tread; skylight over. Ground
floor: front room has marble fireplace with shelf on corbels.
Attic has 2-raised-and-fielded-panel door and some exposed
timbers. Further staircase to roof space has stick balusters.
Roof space has wide floorboards and square panels of
timber-framing to gable end. Roof has 1 level of purlins and
rafters, some renewed, with bracing.
All the listed buildings in College Precinct (qqv) form a good
group and part of the setting for Worcester Cathedral (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 316).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488670
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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