Nos 38 and 40 With Attached Boundary Walls and Piers and Gates and Railings to No 38
NOS 38 AND 40 WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND PIERS AND GATES AND RAILINGS TO NO 38, 38 AND 40, LARK HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389944
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 38 and 40 With Attached Boundary Walls and Piers and Gates and Railings to No 38
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 38 AND 40 WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND PIERS AND GATES AND RAILINGS TO NO 38, 38 AND 40, LARK HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389944
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 38 and 40 With Attached Boundary Walls and Piers and Gates and Railings to No 38
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 38 AND 40 WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND PIERS AND GATES AND RAILINGS TO NO 38, 38 AND 40, LARK HILL
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:
- NOS 38 AND 40 WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND PIERS AND GATES AND RAILINGS TO NO 38, 38 AND 40, LARK HILL
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:
- SO8636554188
Details
WORCESTER
SO85SE LARK HILL
620-1/4/381 Nos.38 AND 40
22/05/54 with attached boundary
walls, piers, gates and
railings to No.38
Formerly Listed as:
LARKHILL ROAD
No.38)
Formerly Listed as:
LARKHILL ROAD
No.40)
GV II
Pair of semi-detached villas with attached boundary wall, piers
and railings to north. c1819-24 with later additions and
alterations including c1836-99 range at rear and boundary walls.
Stucco over brick with concealed roof, party-wall stuccoed stacks
with renewed oversailing course and with stacks; timber verandah
with slate roof; red brick walls with painted ashlar piers and
cast-iron railings and gates. Each house originally L-plan with
service ranges to rear, now partly infilled. Symmetrical
Classical design with main facade to garden: 3 storeys, 4
first-floor windows. Central 2-window breakforward has end Doric
pilasters to full height, central full-height, round-arched
recess. Continuous frieze, cornice and blocking course. First
floor has 6/6 sashes where original, otherwise 1/1 horned sashes.
Second floor has 3/3 sashes where original. Ground floor has tall
6/6 sashes where original and verandah at left. Left return has
full-height bow window with 6/6 and 3/3 sashes, curved on
section. Entrance to No.38 to north (left) return: flight of
steps to part-glazed door with lower fielded panel, fanlight with
'v'-glazing bars, in tooled timber doorcase with roundels.
Entrance to No.40 now at rear (east): part-glazed door in fluted
timber doorcase with cornice. Rear retains 6/6 and 8/8 ashes
where original.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: north boundary wall, coped, has pilaster
buttresses and modillion frieze; 2 piers, square on plan, with
panelled shafts and peaked cap. Wall approximately 50 metres long
and 2 metres high. Railings surmounting low coped wall continue o
west boundary have bars and standards with ornate finials,
renewed gate.
HISTORIC NOTE: the Lark Hill development, c1819-24, was intended
to be much larger and to include terraces and a crescent.
Nos 38 to 50 (even) and Woodside, Lark Hill Road (qqv) form a
group. No.38 was formerly listed as No.1 and No.40 was formerly
listed as No.2 Larkhill Road.
(Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead
D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian
Worcs: 1989-: 41).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488895
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whitehead, D, Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers in Urban Renewal And Suburban Growth: The Shaping Of Georgian Worcester, (1989), 41
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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