No 5 and Attached Gazebo
NO 5 AND ATTACHED GAZEBO, 5, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389933
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- No 5 and Attached Gazebo
- Statutory Address:
- NO 5 AND ATTACHED GAZEBO, 5, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389933
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- No 5 and Attached Gazebo
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 5 AND ATTACHED GAZEBO, 5, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
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:
- NO 5 AND ATTACHED GAZEBO, 5, 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:
- SO 85480 55730
Details
WORCESTER
SO8555NW LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
620-1/9/370 (North East side)
05/04/71 No.5 and attached gazebo
Formerly Listed as:
LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
No.5)
GV II
House. c1835-40 with later additions and alterations. Painted
stucco over brick, hipped slate roof with wide eaves. Left
end-stack in painted brick with oversailing detail and pots.
Timber oriel window with wrought-iron balcony. Tented verandah on
supports of wrought and cast-iron. Double-depth plan with
entrance hall and staircase to centre rear. 3 storeys with
cellar. 2 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes fluted
pilasters rising from first-floor sill band with corbel brackets
to outer pair of pilasters; pilaster capitals have decorated
frieze with foliated scrolled-shell motif. Stucco lined to
represent ashlar. Second-floor windows are 4/4; first-floor right
is 8/8; all in plain reveals with sills. First-floor left is
later canted oriel window with 4-pane transom lights over pair of
6-pane side-hung casements with similar single casements to the
returns; carved quatrefoil frieze with crude scrolled parapet;
Ornamental balcony in scrolled heart and anthemion design. Centre
ground-floor is 2/2 margin glazed sash extending to ground level;
to either side is a 2-pane French window with overlight; all in
plain reveals. Full-width tented verandah with slender support
frames stiffened by scrolls and anthemion motifs. Returns are
also in painted stucco with a band at first-floor sill level to
rear half only. Left-return has external stack to rear
terminating at eaves level. Set back on the left-return is a
later single-storey range in painted brick under a hipped slate
roof; fenestration is side-hung casements under segmental arches
and C20 patio doors. Rear elevation is painted brick with narrow
projecting central section, this contains replacement
fully-glazed door with 4-centred arch head, top ash of 6/6
windows above to first- and second-floor have similar arched head
and traceried glazing bars; otherwise conventional 6/6 and 8/8.
INTERIOR: retains some original features including panelled
doors, architraves, skirtings and cornices; the staircase has
stick balusters and wreathed handrail.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: At the left end of the facade is an
irregular six-sided single-storey grotto with pitched lead roof
surmounted by a finial. 3 of the faces have a 2-light window
under 4-centred arch head; lights are either 4-pane or
lattice-leaded, the latter includes some coloured glass; paired
entrance doors to right have margin glazing with flush-beaded
panel below; fanlight with 4-centred arch head and similar arch
tracery glazing bars. The interior has fitted boarded seating and
is decorated with sea-shells arranged in a variety of patterns
mainly floral.
HISTORICAL NOTE: House of similar design to No.6 (qv) Lansdowne
Crescent. 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 elevation. 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:
- 488884
- 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.
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