4, EDGAR STREET
4, EDGAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389777
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 4, EDGAR STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 4, EDGAR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389777
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 4, EDGAR STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, EDGAR STREET
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:
- 4, EDGAR 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 85124 54437
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554SW EDGAR STREET
620-1/20/221 (South side)
22/05/54 No.4
GV II
House, now offices. c1730s with later additions and
alterations. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with stone
sills and stucco lintel; plain tile roof, end brick stacks
(that to left shared with No.5 (qv)) with oversailing course
and pots; cast-iron grille.
PLAN: double depth with hall and stairwell between. 3 storeys
on half-basement, plus attic, one first-floor window.
Chamfered plinth with grille. First floor has wide canted bay
on wine-glass stem with 6/1 horned sashes and with pilasters
between, surmounted by balustrade. Second floor has two 9/9
sashes in near-flush frames with sills and under elliptical
arches. Moulded cornice. Ground floor: entrance to left a
6-raised-and-fielded-panel door with Gothic glazing bars to
fanlight; hood on brackets. At right a tripartite window with
6/6 between 2/2 sashes, lintel chanelled into voussoirs. Box
dormer to attic has casement windows. Rear retains 8/8 and
8/12 sashes.
INTERIOR: to front ground-floor room an Aesthetic Movement
fireplace with tiles. Hallway has panelled dado and open newel
staircase to full height with rod on bobbin balusters. Kitchen
at rear has tall, wide fireplace with eystone.; 2-panel door
with HL hings. Barrel-vaulted basement with coal shute. First
floor has 2-raised-and-fielded-panel door with HL hinge and
another tiled Victorian fireplace to front room; rear room has
bolection-moulded fireplace with Delft tiles with flaoral
motif. 2 further 2-panel doors. Second floor: similar doors
with HL hinges; Victorian fireplace to front. Attic has
6-panel door.
Nos 2-16 (consecutive) Edgar Street (qqv) form a significant
group, together with Nos 28-34 (even) Sidbury; No.12 College
Precincts; Tower House, No.1 Severn Street; and Edgar Tower,
College Green (qqv). Edgar Street (in which all the buildings
are listed) is a fine example of a Georgian street and it
forms part of the setting for the Cathedral (qv).
(Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the
County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 206-12).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488728
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 206-12
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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