7, 8, 8A AND 9, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389935
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 7, 8, 8A AND 9, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
Statutory Address:: 7, 8, 8A AND 9, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389935
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 7, 8, 8A AND 9, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
Statutory Address 1:: 7, 8, 8A AND 9, 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:: 7, 8, 8A AND 9, 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:: SO8545455776

Details

WORCESTER

SO8555NW LANSDOWNE CRESCENT 620-1/9/372 (North East side) 05/04/71 Nos.7, 8, 8A AND 9

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses designed to look like one large villa. Numbered right to left, described left to right. 1860-65 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick; hipped slate roof with wide overhanging eaves on cyma reversa timber corbel brackets. Stucco stack to party-walls and right end, all with plinth, plain frieze, modillion cornice and pots. Hipped slate roof to belvedere. Double-depth plan. Originally symmetrical facade with central 3-storey Italianate belvedere; later narrow extension to right in matching style (map evidence suggests added between 1884 and 1926). 2 storeys with basement and attic, 8 (3:1:3 [:1]) first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes rusticated pilaster strips to ends (later extension results in additional pilaster strip to right; first-floor is inset to left, a scrolled bracket bridges the resulting offset in the pilaster strip); stepped and moulded band between ground and first-floor; moulded sill band to first-floor windows with brackets to each window which have plain architraves; ground-floor windows have moulded, shouldered and eared architraves with ramped head and capped keystone; centre bay breaks forward with stepped and bracketted clasping pilasters extending up to first-floor sill band; pilasters linked by moulded band to imposts of semi-circular arch over entrance; blind occulus with moulded architrave to each spandrel; plain eaves band; clasping pilasters above main eaves level, plain architrave with capped keystone to second-floor window which is 1/1 with margin glazing, upper sash has semi-circular arched head. First-floor windows flanking central bay are triple with 2 mullions (1/1:2/2:1/1); otherwise 2/2; all with margin glazing. External blind boxes to 3 windows to right. On ground-floor, windows to either side of entrance are triple with 2 mullions (1/2:2/4:1/2); other ground-floor windows are 2/4; all extend down to floor level; most have external blind-box. Central entrance door is all-glazed replacement with plain fanlight and flanked by single pane side-hung casements. C20 basement window to left and right with C20 steel grille over each area. Tripartite door/side-lights to extension to far-right, outer pair of pilasters and inner pair of engaged columns, all on pedestals and with Corinthian capitals linked by cushion frieze and moulded cornice with capped keystone feature rising into centre pediment, Tympanum has decoration in relief. Paired 2-panel doors, top section glazed, small bottom panel raised and fielded with bolection moulding; 3-pane overlight; rolled edge stone step; side-lights are 2 down to floor-level; single inner door of 3-panels, top panel glazed, bottom pair raised and fielded with bolection moulding; part-glazed screen including transom lights, bottom panels flush-beaded. 8 roll-edged stone steps from terrace down to garden, flanks curved in plan; renewed scrolled metal balustrade. Left-return is stucco scored to represent ashlar, plain eaves band with brackets, 1 at left and 2 to returned pilaster strip at right; brick plinth. Central 3-panel door, upper panel margin-glazed, bottom pair flush-beaded; flanked by margin-glazed side-lights. C20 car-port. Right-return in painted, lined stucco with external stack to right of set back upper storey. No openings. Rear elevation of No.7 is painted stucco. To left is 6-panel door with bolection moulding; overlight; 2 sidelights down to floor level. 2/2 margin-glazed sash above to first-floor. Projecting wing to right has tripartite window (1/1:2/2:1/1) to first-floor return, below is a timber canted bay (2/2:4/4:2/2) down to floor level. Wing continues as 2-storey red brick and slate service range with /1, 3/3, and 6/6 sashes with stone sills and under segmental arches; central C20 glazed door with C20 window to right. Rear elevation of No.8 is red brick and most of the fenestration is C20. Rear first-floor to No.9 is part tile-hung; tripartite window to ground- and first-floor (1/1:2/2:1/10 in plain reveals with sills. 2-storey service range has 3/3 sashes under segmental arched heads. INTERIORS: retains some original features including panelled doors and shutters, architraves skirtings and dado rails, plaster cornices, fireplaces; polychromatic floor tiles in No.8. Staircase to No.7 and No.9 have slender turned balusters and wreathed handrails. The staircase to No.8 has been relocated. HISTORICAL 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. Brick-lined semi-circular arched pedestrian tunnel approx. 6 metres long leads from garden below entrance to centre house and provides access to basement. The tunnel entrance is flanked by 2 parallel flights of 10 roll-edged stone steps nd guarded by ornamental cast-iron balustrade; both steps and balustrade have been reset. 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:: 488886
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.