COLUMBUS HOUSE

COLUMBUS HOUSE, 27, COLLEGE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389725
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: COLUMBUS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: COLUMBUS HOUSE, 27, COLLEGE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389725
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: COLUMBUS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: COLUMBUS HOUSE, 27, COLLEGE STREET

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:: COLUMBUS HOUSE, 27, COLLEGE STREET

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 85107 54519

Details

WORCESTER

SO8554NW COLLEGE STREET 620-1/17/184 (West side) 05/04/71 No.27 Columbus House (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE STREET (West side) Nos.27, 28 AND 29)

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House, now offices. c1808-1832 with later additions and alterations including c1980s shop front. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond to ground and first floors with red brick in Flemish bond to second floor; stone sills and red gauged brick arches; slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First-floor has 6/6 sashes; second-floor has 8/8 horned sashes, all in shallow reveals and with flat arches and sills. Ground floor: entrance at right a 6-panel door, the upper 4 panels raised and fielded, lower flush beaded in flush beaded reveals and with pilastered doorcase with open pediment. Renewed shop front in Victorian style. Modillion eaves band. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: apparently not shown on Young's Map c1808 but shown on Clements's Map of 1832. (Young G: Map of Worcester: London: 1808-; Clements J: A Plan of the City and Environs of Worcester: Worcester: 1832-).

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 488676
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Clements, J, Plan of the City and Environs of Worcester, (1832)
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Title: Map of Worcester Source Date: 1808 Author: Publisher: Surveyor:

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.