15, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389940
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 15, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
Statutory Address:: 15, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389940
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: 15, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
Statutory Address 1:: 15, 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:: 15, 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 85406 55891

Details

WORCESTER

SO8555NW LANSDOWNE CRESCENT 620-1/9/377 (North East side) 05/04/71 No.15

GV II

Detached house, reputed to be the last house to be completed in the Crescent. 1845-68 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick with slate roof. Stone coped, parapeted gables with stucco end stacks, that to left has recessed panel; no pots. Wrought-iron grilles, railings and gate to basement areas. Cast-iron screen to porch. Double-depth plan with side entrance. 2-storeys and basement. 4 first-floor windows (2:2). Stucco lined to represent ashlar, detailing includes porch to left return, plinth, first-floor sill band, corbel bracket to eaves at each gable, shouldered and eared architraves to all windows, those to first-floor are moulded; moulded cornices on console brackets to ground-floor windows which are 4/4 extending down to floor-level; first-floor are 2/2; all sills are stooled. 2 basement windows to left are 12-pane iron-framed with segmental heads, top centre 2-lights on horizontal pivot; 2 windows to right are replacement single-pane timber frame; all in individual light-wells with hinged grilles. Stucco detailing continues on left return; left of centre is porch of 2 square, panelled columns and matching pilasters carrying semi-circular arches with moulded architraves, keystone to N. arch, triangular inset panels to spandrels; archways to N. and W. are open, that to E. infilled with ornamental scrolled grille over masonry, later 2-pane margin-glazed window to outer face of grille has obscure and coloured glass. 3-panel door, glass over pair of flush-beaded panels, plain fanlight, single-pane flanking windows. Above porch is 2/2 sash with cornice and console brackets as per ground-floor of facade. To left of porch, 9 brick steps down to pair of vertically boarded doors under segmental arch into basement. Railings and matching gate to steps. Right-return is blank red brick. Rear of house is 2-storey painted brick outshut with 6/6 and 1/1 sashes in plain reveals with sills, ground-floor windows have flat gauged brick arches. Interior retains original features including panelled doors and shutters, architraves, skirtings and picture rails, plaster cornices and ceiling centres, marble fireplaces. Single-storey brick and slate service range to rear south has side-hung casements and boarded door. 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 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:: 488891
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.