3 AND 4, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389932
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 3 AND 4, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
Statutory Address:: 3 AND 4, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389932
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: 3 AND 4, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
Statutory Address 1:: 3 AND 4, 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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Location

Statutory Address:: 3 AND 4, 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:: SO8549555714

Details

WORCESTER

SO8555NW LANSDOWNE CRESCENT 620-1/9/369 (North East side) 05/04/71 Nos.3 AND 4 (Consecutive) Formerly Listed as: LANSDOWNE CRESCENT No.3) Formerly Listed as: LANSDOWNE CRESCENT No.4)

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2 semi-detached houses, numbered right to left, described left to right. c1835-40 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof. 3 painted brick stacks, to left return and to front and rear roof slopes at party wall, all with oversailing detail and pots. Timber bay window with flat lead roof; timber balcony and pergola to left house. Timber porch to right house. Double-depth plan with entrances in left and right returns and to rear. Originally symmetrical elevation, additional range added to left. 2 storeys with basement and attic, 5 first-floor windows (1:2:2). Stucco lined to represent ashlar, detailing includes plain eaves band to all elevations. First-floor windows are 8/8 with external blind-boxes except that to left; all have sills. Late C20 replacement canted bay to left ground-floor has moulded cornice and bracketted eaves, multi-pane glazing with transom lights. To centre and right of No.4 is a C20 replacement French window, each leaf of 2-panes; overlight and external blind-box; ground level below these windows has been reduced to form a semi-basement with inserted French windows, each leaf of 2-panes; late C20 balcony and pergola. To left is single-storey basement extension with C20 window and door and whose parapeted flat roof serves as a terrace to the bay window above. Ground-floor windows to No.3 are 8/8 sashes with external blind-boxes as per first-floor; 4/8 sashes to basement. Left-return is painted brick, central 5-panel, part-glazed door. 6/6 near-flush sash under segmental arch to first-floor; semi-circular lead-roofed dormer to hip-end with 4-pane window. Rear elevation to No.4 is red brick with 4/4 and 8/8 sashes in near-flush frames, under segmental rubbed brick arches and with stone sills; replacement 3-panel door with overlight. Right-return is painted stucco. Set back towards the rear is a narrow 2-storey extension with flat lead roof. Steps to west-facing entrance; 6-panel door, upper panels glazed, bottom pair flush-beaded; fanlight based on circle-and-teardrop design; moulded architrave, reveals and soffit have raised beading panel design; Tuscan-style porch (canopy substantially rebuilt c1993 following dry-rot outbreak), single fluted-column rising from low flank wall to steps. Reinstated 8/8 sash to first-floor. South face of extension has paired 1/1 sashes in plain reveals with sills to ground- and first-floors. Reinstated 8/8 sash to first-floor. Similar dormer to hip-end but with 3/6 sash. Rear of No.3 is painted brick, near-flush 8/8 sashes to first-floor under segmental arches and with sills. Square bay to left ground-floor, moulded and bracketted cornice, 2 mullions, transom lights. C20 single-storey flat roof porch to right with window and part-glazed door. INTERIOR: No.3 retains some original features including panelled doors, shutters, skirtings, architraves, plaster cornices; staircase has stick balusters and wreathed handrail. Altered 2-storey brick and slate coach house forms part of north and east boundaries (No.4). HISTORICAL NOTE: the additional range to the left, including a canted bay to the facade, and the extension to the right return is shown on the 1886 O.S. Map. 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. ap 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:: 488883
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.