Building Adjacent (North Side) to Security House

BUILDING ADJACENT (NORTH SIDE) TO SECURITY HOUSE, BARBOURNE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1359560
Date first listed:
01-Aug-1977
List Entry Name:
Building Adjacent (North Side) to Security House
Statutory Address:
BUILDING ADJACENT (NORTH SIDE) TO SECURITY HOUSE, BARBOURNE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1359560
Date first listed:
01-Aug-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:
Building Adjacent (North Side) to Security House
Statutory Address 1:
BUILDING ADJACENT (NORTH SIDE) TO SECURITY HOUSE, BARBOURNE ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BUILDING ADJACENT (NORTH SIDE) TO SECURITY HOUSE, BARBOURNE 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:
SO 84633 56054

Details

WORCESTER

SO8456SE BARBOURNE ROAD
620-1/6/32 (West side)
01/08/77 Building adjacent (north
side) to Security House
(Formerly Listed as:
BARBOURNE ROAD
(West side)
Building adjacent to
Spreckley (Witco) House)

GV II

Possibly a horse engine house. c1850, with probable
earlier(c1830) origins, and later alterations and additions.
Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with pitched slate roof.
Cast-iron supporting columns. Cast-iron framed window. Approx.
semi-circular in plan. Single-storey with South entrance. Each
gable end has a ventilation eye; Barbourne Road (East)
elevation has fixed multi-pane window, centre four panes pivot
on horizontal axis; segmental arch over and flush brick sill.
Roof ridge runs East-West. The wall-plate to the South
elevation is supported on 2cast-iron columns and later brick
infill. C20 vertically boarded folding doors (6 leaves) to
centre; half height obscured glazing to each side, 3 fixed
lights to right of door, 12 to left.
INTERIOR: roof supported on 4 cast-iron columns and simple
timber trusses. Blue-brick paved floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: probably part of former Spreckley's Brewery,
Gwilliam thinks this building housed a horse-driven
water-pump. Line of cut bricks at height of approx. 1.3 metres
suggests building was erected on site boundary wall. Shown
on1886 Ordnance Survey Map as being accessed separately.
Remainder of brewery, with the exception of malting house (now
converted to housing), demolished pre-1973. (Gwilliam HW: Old
Worcester: 1977-: 58).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
488500
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.

Ordnance survey map of Building Adjacent (North Side) to Security House

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