8, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
8, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063839
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 8, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
- Statutory Address:
- 8, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063839
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 8, COLLEGE PRECINCTS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, 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:
- 8, 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 85095 54482
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554SW COLLEGE PRECINCTS
620-1/20/179 (East side)
22/05/54 No.8
GV II
House. c1740's with later additions and alterations including
C19 bow window and with C20 dormers. Pinkish-red brick in
Flemish bond with concealed roof. 2 storeys plus attic and on
half-basement, 4 first-floor windows. 3-course first-floor
band. First floor has 6/6 sashes in lush frames and with flat
arches of gauged brick. 3-course band over first floor.
Modillion eaves. 2 roof dormers with casement windows. Ground
floor: chamfered plinth with grille at right. Bow at left has
three 12-pane lights and fluted pilasters between. 6/6 sash at
right in flush frame and with flat arch of gauged brick, with
external shutters. Off-centre right entrance a
3-raised-and-fielded panel door with fluted surround and with
hood on corbels, divided overlight above.
INTERIOR: noted as retaining original plasterwork and joinery
including dentil cornice to first-floor room.
All the listed buildings in College Precincts (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:
- 488671
- 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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