THE HOMESTEAD

THE HOMESTEAD, 17, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389942
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: THE HOMESTEAD
Statutory Address:: THE HOMESTEAD, 17, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389942
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: THE HOMESTEAD
Statutory Address 1:: THE HOMESTEAD, 17, 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:: THE HOMESTEAD, 17, 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 85443 55956

Details

WORCESTER

SO8555NW LANSDOWNE CRESCENT 620-1/9/379 (North East side) 22/05/54 No.17 The Homestead

GV II

Detached house. 1835-45 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick, hipped slate roofs. Stucco end stacks with cornices to west range, similar stack plus further stacks with ornamental caps to east range. Timber brackets to eaves. Lead roofed verandah on timber posts and wrought-iron supports. Lead roof bay window, decorative timber eaves detail to bay and verandah. Timber and glass conservatory on stucco-over-brick base. 3 parallel abutting ranges of buildings with their long axes aligned approx. N-S, together with transverse-wing to north forms E-shaped plan. Hall and staircase to centre range. 2- and part 3-storeys with cellar. Principal (south) Elevation: asymmetric composition of three bays, that to centre is apsidal (3-sides), bay to right breaks forward and has a higher eaves line. Wide eaves with simple rectangular paired brackets. 2 first-floor windows (0:1:1). Stucco is incised to represent ashlar, detailing includes plinth, eaves band (plain to left and centre, moulded to right bay); moulded door architrave with shell motif to tympanum. First-floor windows to centre and right are 6/6 sashes in plain reveals with sills, window to right elevated. Central entrance; 4-panel door, upper pair glazed with semi-circular heads, lower pair raised and fielded with bolection moulding. Tented verandah over door extends to left return, supported on 2 large square posts with stopped chamfers and 3 slender lattice-work frames with small rosettes to each joint; scalloped and pierced eaves detail. Tented roof canted bay to right; 2-pane French window and overlight; 2-pane window and overlight to returns, decorative pierced cast-iron ventilation grille adjacent to overlight. The elevation is continued to the right by a conservatory of 10 bays; 6 bays are formed from 6/6 sashes; each end bay is a 2/2 sash with both curved frame and glass; all supported on a dwarf-wall; the remaining 2 bays (nos. 3 and 8) are 6-pane doors with a raised and fielded bottom panel and pane overlights; colonnettes to each bay division. Hipped glazed roof, opening roof-lights. Conservatory accessed internally via 2-pane French window in E. elevation of house. Lansdowne Crescent (West) Elevation: 2-storey. 3 first-floor windows. Stucco is lined to represent ashlar, detailing includes plinth, pilaster strips to ends and between windows linked by plain eaves band, radial fluted-shell motifs to tympana of ground-floor windows. First-floor windows are 2/2, ground-floor are 2-pane French windows with overlights; all in plain reveals; louvred shutters with hold-backs. Rear (east) Elevation: Painted stucco. 4/4 sash to second floor, otherwise 6/6 and 8/8; window to left first-floor has louvred shutters as per west elevation. Single-storey former service range extends to east and forms rear wall of conservatory. INTERIOR: retains many of its original features including panelled doors and shutters, skirtings, architraves; plaster cornices, some with modillions, one with rosettes; ceiling centres, hall ceiling is embossed papier maché; decorative frieze in room to right of hall is similar. Open-well staircase has lender turned balusters and wreathed handrail. Back stairs with winders. Fireplaces to ground- and first-floor in timber, marble and painted stone with cast-iron grates; one of the ground-floor fireplaces includes the Crest of the City of Worcester. HISTORICAL NOTE: The City Crest on one of the fireplaces probably relates to Joseph Wood, builder and contractor, and Mayor of Worcester who was living in the house (then known as Lansdowne Villa) in 1861. A notable composition in the Regency tradition, the conservatory being a good example of its type. 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:: 488893
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.