NOS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED WALL

NOS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 1 AND 2, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389931
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED WALL
Statutory Address:: NOS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 1 AND 2, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389931
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED WALL
Statutory Address 1:: NOS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 1 AND 2, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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:: NOS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 1 AND 2, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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:: SO8550755695

Details

WORCESTER

SO8555NE LANSDOWNE CRESCENT 620-1/10/368 (North East side) 05/04/71 Nos.1 AND 2 and attached wall (Formerly Listed as: LANSDOWNE CRESCENT No.1) Formerly Listed as: LANSDOWNE CRESCENT No.2)

GV II

Semi-detached houses. c1835-40 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick, hipped slate roof, 3 ridge stacks, 1 at party-wall, 1 to right, 1 to rear wing, all in stucco with oversailing detail and pots. Cast-iron steps and balustrade accessing stucco and timber bay window and similar steps to French window, both of right-hand house. Timber external blind-boxes and architraves. T-shaped plan with side entrances in rear wing. Originally symmetrical principal elevation, additional narrow bay added to right-end together with infill to rear (1886 O.S. map shows extensions). 2 storeys with basement and cellar, 4 (2:2:0) first-floor windows. Stucco lined to represent ashlar, detailing includes simple plinth, pilaster strips to ends and between windows. First-floor windows are 8/8 sashes in plain reveals with sills; external ornamented blind-boxes and narrow architraves. Ground-floor left is French window, each leaf of 8-panes with 4-pane overlight; to right is 8/8 sash; C20 window to basement. Right-house has canted bay to left with moulded frieze and dentilled cornice; French window with 2-pane overlight; unequal 2/1 sashes to returns; small, stone-flagged terrace accessed from right via 3 decorative pierced steps; ornamental balustrade with moulded wooden handrail; to right-return of bay is small semi-circular window opening to cellar. To right of bay is 1/1 sash with horns; to far right is French window with 2-light overlight; roll-edged stone sill; 3 decorative pierced steps similar to those to the bay. All the ground-floor windows have external-blind boxes as per first-floor. Left return in stucco, 2 small C20 windows. Rear of No.2 is painted brick with 6/6 sashes and replacement 6-panel door, fanlight and pedimented doorcase; service range also painted brick with 8/8 sashes, C20 door. Right-return is painted stucco and brick; stucco piers with moulded stone caps flank 1 stone and 8 slate steps to 5-panel door, centre and upper pair of panels raised and fielded with bolection moulding, bottom pair flush-double-beaded with decoration; segmental pattern fanlight; moulded architrave; 1/1, 6/6, and 8/8 sashes. 2-storey brick and slate service-range to rear has 2 unequal 2 barred sashes to first-floor; pair of vertically boarded doors under segmental arch to ground-floor. Service range linked to main house by brick boundary wall, approx. 6m. long by 2,5m. high, curving in plan and with curvilinear brick coping; wall pierced by pedestrian vertically-boarded door under segmental arch. INTERIOR: of No.1 contains original features including panelled doors, fluted architraves with paterae, skirtings, dado and picture rails, plaster cornices and ceiling centres, dogleg staircase with square balusters. HISTORIC NOTE: because of their elevated position, vehicular access to these houses could only be from the east via Lansdowne Crescent Lane; this introduced a degree of formality to what would normally be the rear elevations. The 1886 O.S. Map shows Nos. 10 and 14 qqv) as exceptions with carriage drives from the west off Lansdowne Crescent. Nos. 1-15 (consecutive) and 17 and 18 Lansdowne Crescent (qqv) form a good group of listed buildings comparing well with other developments of this period in Worcester such as Britannia Square, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 38, 335; JM Knowles: Lansdowne Crescent Worcester to 1900: Worcester: 1988-).

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 488882
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Knowles, J M , Lansdowne Crescent, Worcester, to 1900, (1988)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 38 335

Legal

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