NO 10 WITH ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND PIER

NO 10 WITH ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND PIER, 10, COLLEGE YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389747
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: NO 10 WITH ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND PIER
Statutory Address:: NO 10 WITH ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND PIER, 10, COLLEGE YARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389747
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: NO 10 WITH ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND PIER
Statutory Address 1:: NO 10 WITH ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND PIER, 10, COLLEGE YARD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NO 10 WITH ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND PIER, 10, 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:: SO8494154546

Details

WORCESTER

SO8454NE COLLEGE YARD 620-1/16/196 (West side) 22/05/54 No.10 with attached walls, railings, gate and pier (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE YARD No.10)

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House with attached walls, railings, gate and pier. Probably c1680-1700 on an earlier site and re-using earlier materials and retaining earlier elements including former entrance to charnel chapel crypt c1224 and probably C14 wall to basement and boundary; and with later additions and alterations including those c1820. Reddish-brown brick with stucco to front facade and green and red sandstone to basement, hipped plain tile roof, 4 tall brick stacks, 1 to each side, 1 to rear and 1 to extension, all with oversailing courses and mainly with pots; sandstone and brick walls; cast-iron gate, railings and balconettes. Double depth plan with central hallway and stairwell behind room at left; further range at left extending to rear; walls and railings abut at left and at rear to left and right. The house is sited on a slope so to front the main range has 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows with 2-storey, single bay to left and single-storey projecting porch occupying 2 bays of main range at right; to main range at rear are 2 storeys on basement plus attics, 4 first-floor windows. Stucco detail includes quoins to angles of main range; fluted keystones with cornices to windows; moulded cornice; coped parapets. 6/6 sashes in near-flush frames throughout, that to ground floor at left range now blocked, those to ground and first floor of main range have thick glazing bars, all with sills. Entrance to left return of porch: 6-panel door, the lower 2 flush-beaded, in tooled architrave with cornice on brackets; otherwise porch has two 2/2 sashes with fluted keystones, cornice and low coped parapet. Left return has 6/6 sashes and 2 tripartite windows with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. Gable-ended attic dormer with 3/3 sash. Rear: wide eaves to main range. Mainly 6/6 sashes, 2 to ground floor at left are 3/9 sashes; all with cambered arches over, those to first floor show evidence of earlier, taller windows. First-floor windows have segmental-shaped lattice balconettes; similar latticework balcony across 2 northernmost ground-floor windows and lattice balustrade to steps leading down to garden. 2 box attic dormers with 4/4 sashes. Basement has 2-light C14 chamfered mullion window. A further casement window in medieval chamfered lintel. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Front garden walls and railings abut left range and return across frontage for approximately 3 metres x 12 metres, with coped wall approximately 1.5 metres high surmounted by spearhead railings; pier to angle, square on plan with frieze and cornice with steps to gate with spearhead railings. Rear boundary garden walls to north and south approximately 40 metres in length and ramped from 2 to 4 metres in height. INTERIOR: retains a wealth of original features. To ground floor the entrance hall has stone flagged floor; archway through to open newel staircase rises to full height with closed string and pulvinated frieze surmounted by turned rod-on-double-bobbin balusters, wide shaped handrail, large bobbin finials and onion-pendants to newels. most original doors survive including those with 2-flush-panels, 2-raised-and-fielded panels, 6-flush-panels; corner cupboard to kitchen has lower doors with h-hinges and two 2-panel upper doors with H-hinges, all with raised-and-fielded-panels to interior; windows have panelled shutters. Room to rear has fireplace with cast-iron Neo-classical grate. First floor: chamfered axial and transverse beams. Rear room has embellished plaster cornice with acanthus leaves and foliate ceiling frieze. Regency marble fireplace. Attic has fireplace to front room with cast-iron grate. Closed string staircase from ground floor to basement has shaped handrail and square newel with big bobbin finial. Basement has former entrance to charnel chapel crypt a pointed, chamfered arch. Plank doors with probably C17 hinges. Remains of a medieval fireplace. Barrel-vaulted cellars with stone shelves. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Front garden walls abut left range and return across frontage for approximately 3 metres x 12 metres, with coped wall approximately 1.5 metres high surrounded by spearhead railings; pier to angle, square on plan with frieze and cornice with steps to gate with spearhead railings. Rear boundary garden walls to north and south approximately 40 metres in length and ramped from 2 to 4 metres in height. HISTORICAL NOTE: this is probably built on the site of house of the chaplain to the charnel chapel (demolished during C17) and incorporates an entrance to the charnel chapel; the basement probably incorporates part of the medieval boundary wall and may also straddle the boundary ditch between the Cathedral and Bishop's Palace (The Old Palace) (qqv). All the listed buildings in College Yard (qqv) form a good group and form part of the setting for the Cathedral (qv). Rear boundary garden walls extend to Diglis Parade where they abut the west boundary wall which forms part of Cathedral Walls (Scheduled Ancient Monument 343A).

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 488698
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.