16, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
16, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389941
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 16, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
- Statutory Address:
- 16, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389941
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 16, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16, 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:
- 16, 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 85399 55906
Details
WORCESTER
SO8555NW LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
620-1/9/378 (North East side)
19/08/99 No.16
GV II
Detached house, built as Rectory for St. Nicholas's, The Cross
(qv). 1860-65 with later additions and alterations. Architect,
William Jeffery Hopkins; builder, Joseph Woods. Red brick with
polychromatic stone dressings, plain clay tile roof, stacks with
ornate corbelled caps and pots. 2 storeys with basement and
attic, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes steps to
entrance, capping course to plinth, buttress copings, window
surrounds, and relieving arches, string course and dentilled
eaves to entrance bay. Double-depth, double-fronted plan with
central entrance hall; service range to left (east). Principal
(entrance) elevation to north onto Lansdowne Crescent. Asymmetric
composition of three bays in Domestic Gothic Revival style;
central narrow entrance bay breaks forward slightly and is
crowned by a steep pyramidal roof; bay to right also breaks
forward slightly with gabled roof over; left of elevation
terminated by tall buttressed stack. Three first-floor mullioned
windows each of differing design but all with cusps to upper part
of surrounds; 1/1 sashes; left window of 2-lights with chamfered
heads which break eaves line, raised portion of roof over; centre
window of 3 trefoil-headed lights; right-hand window of 2 lights
with square heads. 11 steps to entrance, pierced partial infill
to intrados of pointed arch over, recessed pair of doors, glazed
upper portion with single horizontal glazing bar, solid panel
below, stopped chamfers to framing, paired overlights. 3-light
mullioned window to immediate left of entrance with further
small, trefoil-headed, single-light window beyond; to right of
entrance, canted oriel window with 4/4 between 2/2 sashes, and
hipped roof. Blocked basement opening to eft of entrance.
INTERIOR: retains joinery details including 4-panel doors with
stopped chamfers to framing, architraves, skirtings and
staircase; some fireplaces.
HISTORICAL NOTE: A good example of a Gothic Revival house of the
1860s, externally well handled and contrasting in its use of
materials to the stuccoed earlier C19 houses of Lansdowne
Crescent.
(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:
- 488892
- 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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