Gatehouse to St Mary's Convent School and Attached Wall to North
GATEHOUSE TO ST MARY'S CONVENT SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALL TO NORTH, BATTLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063935
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to St Mary's Convent School and Attached Wall to North
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE TO ST MARY'S CONVENT SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALL TO NORTH, BATTLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063935
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1999
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to St Mary's Convent School and Attached Wall to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE TO ST MARY'S CONVENT SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALL TO NORTH, BATTLE ROAD
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:
- GATEHOUSE TO ST MARY'S CONVENT SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALL TO NORTH, BATTLE ROAD
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:
- SO8588753673
Details
WORCESTER
SO85SE BATTLE ROAD
620-1/4/684 (South East side)
01/02/99 Gatehouse to St Mary's
Convent School and attached
wall to north
(Formerly Listed as:
BATTLE ROAD
Gatehouse to St Mary's
Convent School)
GV II
Gatehouse with gates, piers and attached walls. Dated 1893 on
stack. For Alfred Percy Allsopp, by architect John Henry Williams
of Foregate Street, Worcester; builders Joseph Woods and Sons,
The Butts, Worcester. Gault brick with glazed tiles; pseudo
timber-framing to first-floor and fish-scale, plain tile roof;
tall brick ridge, rear and roof stacks with cornices and
oversailing courses, resembling clusters. Brick and tile walls.
Cast-iron gates. Tudor Revival style.
PLAN: irregular composition in L-plan, with single-storey and
attic range to left; wide single-bay gateway with gabled storey
over; tall 2-storey on basement, single-bay range with jettied
gable over and 3-storey tower. Off-centre left gateway has
elliptical arch with ovolo-moulded surround and hoodmould.
Otherwise entrance to right at base of tower, a plank door.
Ground-floor has 5-light mullion window to left range and
4-light, mullion and tramsom window to right. Upper stage: attic
roof dormer at left with decorative bargeboards; 4-light
wooden-mullion window in gable over archway; and oriel window to
first-floor of right range; all with multi-pane lights. Tower has
2-light mullion and transom window to first-floor and crowning
octagonal turret with cusped lights, ogee dome. To right return a
2-storey range breaks forward and has mullion windows to
ground-floor and multi-pane casements to first-floor. Rear is
jettied to first-floor and has jettied gables over. Multi-pane
transomed windows to ground-floor and 3- and 4-light, multi-pane
windows on corbelled sills to first-floor. 4-light window over
gateway. Carved bargeboards. Double carriage gates have ornate
scrolled motifs. Embattled walls approximately one metre high.
Quadrant wall to left of carriage arch approximately 5 metres
long has octagonal pier to each end, that to right abuts
pedestrian gateway with low piers, square on plan and with ogee
caps; further stretch of embattled wall rising to two metres in
height, for approximately 6 metres. Battlements embellished with
scrolled vine motif.
An impressive example of a Domestic Revival gatehouse, forms a
group with St. Mary's Convent School, and St. Mary's Convent
Junior School and Kindergarten, Battenhall Avenue (qqv). (Leach,
Annette: The House that William Built - the history of Battenhall
Mount: Birmingham University: 1993-).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488525
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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