Abbeyfield

Abbeyfield, 12, Green Hill London Road, Worcester, WR5 2AA

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389869
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: Abbeyfield
Statutory Address:: Abbeyfield, 12, Green Hill London Road, Worcester, WR5 2AA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389869
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: Abbeyfield
Statutory Address 1:: Abbeyfield, 12, Green Hill London Road, Worcester, WR5 2AA

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:: Abbeyfield, 12, Green Hill London Road, Worcester, WR5 2AA

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 85387 54131

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 August 2023 to remove superfluous source details from the text and reformat the text to current standards SO8554SW 620-1/20/308

WORCESTER GREEN HILL LONDON ROAD No.12, Abbeyfield (Formerly Listed as: GREEN HILL, LONDON ROAD No.12)

22/05/54

GV II House, now nursing home. c1830-40 with later additions and alterations including C20 extension. Stucco over brick with renewed tile hipped roof, brick ridge stacks; cast-iron porch. Two storeys, three first floor windows. Plinth; full-height pilasters to ends and between windows, the capitals continue as cornice, with further frieze and roll-moulded eaves cornice, coped parapet. Two roll-edged and one renewed steps to central entrance a two vertical raised-and-fielded-panel door; porch has barleytwist pillars and bolection-moulded hood with acanthus frieze. Some six/six sashes to rear.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Green Hill was developed c1828. Nos 2-10 (consecutive) and Nos 12, 14, 15 and 16 Green Hill, London Road form a good group of early C19 houses.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 488820
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Whitehead, D, 'Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian Worcester' in Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers, (1989), 44

Legal

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