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:: 16, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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.