PARK HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

PARK HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 10, FORT ROYAL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389834
Date first listed:: 15-May-1979
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: PARK HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 10, FORT ROYAL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389834
Date first listed:: 15-May-1979
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: PARK HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 10, FORT ROYAL LANE

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:: PARK HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 10, FORT ROYAL LANE

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 85641 54329

Details

WORCESTER

SO8554SE FORT ROYAL LANE 620-1/21/277 No.10 15/05/79 Park House and attached railings

II

Detached villa with attached railings to steps. c1828 with later additions and alterations; said to have been built for Humphrey Chamberlain (of Chamberlain's Porcelain Manufactory, Worcester). Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof, boxed eaves. Central stucco stack with oversailing detail and pots. Wrought-iron handrail to entrance steps. Cast-iron column and timber shutters to porch. Timber doorcase. Double-depth plan. Access in right return to stairhall. South Elevation: Unusually tall proportions, 3 storeys and semi-basement. 2 first-floor windows. Stucco lined to represent ashlar, detailing includes plinth; giant pilasters flanking each window, frieze to capitals decorated with anthemia; plain eaves band below moulded cornice; fluted fan and acanthus leaf decoration to tympana above ground- and first-floor windows. Windows to semi-basement are 4/4 sashes, to elevated ground-floor 1/1, to first-floor 6/6, to second-floor 3/3; all in plain reveals with sills; ground and first-floor have round arched heads, second-floor have cambered heads; external blind boxes to ground-floor. Left return: 2 first-floor windows. Stucco plinth and eaves detail continued from south elevation. 3/3 sash to second-floor, otherwise 6/6. External blind-boxes to ground and first-floors. Right-return: 1 first-floor window. Stucco plinth and eaves detail continued from south elevation. 3/3 sash to second-floor, otherwise 6/6. Pointed arch opening to lower left is glazed door to semi-basement. 2-storey outshut to right of elevation forms partially open porch enclosing wall to right and column to left front, space to right of column infilled with hinged panelled shutters; porch accessed from left by a flight of 9 stone steps, wreathed handrail with slender round balusters. 6-panel entrance door, bottom pair of panels triple-beaded, otherwise raised and fielded; fluted architrave, panelled reveals; plain fanlight. INTERIOR: Retains original features including open-well staircase with wreathed handrail and square balusters; panelled doors and shutters; architraves with paterae to doors and windows; decorative plaster cornices; marble fireplace with cast-iron grate.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 488785
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.