No 8 and Attached Walls, Gatepiers and Gate
NO 8 AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATE, 8, COLLEGE YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389746
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- No 8 and Attached Walls, Gatepiers and Gate
- Statutory Address:
- NO 8 AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATE, 8, COLLEGE YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389746
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- No 8 and Attached Walls, Gatepiers and Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 8 AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATE, 8, COLLEGE YARD
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:
- NO 8 AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATE, 8, COLLEGE YARD
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:
- SO8496954561
Details
WORCESTER
SO8454NE COLLEGE YARD
620-1/16/195 (West side)
22/05/54 No.8
and attached walls,
gatepiers and gate
(Formerly Listed as:
COLLEGE YARD
No.8)
GV II
House, now offices with attached wall, piers and gates.
c1720-50, clearly later than No. 7 (qv). with later additions
and alterations with walls re-using earlier, probably C13
material; renewed gates. Reddish-brown brick, stuccoed to
front and to ground floor on left return, painted above, plain
tile roof hipped at left and tall left end reddish-brown stack
with renewed oversailing course; wall in coursed red and green
sandstone. 3 storeys on half-basement, 5 first-floor windows.
Plinth; first- and second-floor bands; moulded cornice, low
coped parapet. Ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes, those
to first floor have thick glazing bars, all in shallow
reveals. second floor has renewed casement windows. Attic has
3 box dormers with casement windows. Basement has blocked
openings, 2 with grilles. Central entrance: 4 roll-edged steps
to 6-raised-and-fielded-panel door with 3-pane overlight, hood
on corbels. Left return has 6/6 sash in plain reveals. Rear
has 6/6 sash and dentil eaves.
INTERIOR: noted as retaining original plasterwork and joinery
including original staircase.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: quadrant wall with chamfered copings
abuts left return at rear for approximately 8 metres, to pair
of gate piers with stepped ovolo-moulded angles and moulded
cornice with urn finials, double plank gates between and
further quadrant wall which abuts wall and railings to No.10
(qv).
All the listed buildings in College Yard (qqv) form a good
group and form part of the setting for the Cathedral (qv).
(NMR: Photographs).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488697
- 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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