Dorset House
Dorset House, 42, Lark Hill
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389945
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Dorset House
- Statutory Address:
- Dorset House, 42, Lark Hill
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389945
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Dorset House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Dorset House, 42, 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:
- Dorset House, 42, 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:
- SO 86373 54170
Details
SO85SE
620-1/4/382
WORCESTER
LARK HILL
No.42, Dorset House
Formerly Listed as: LARKHILL ROAD No.42)
22/05/54
GV
II
Pair of semi-detached villas, now single dwelling. c1819-1824 with later additions and alterations including conversion to single dwelling c1880-1900. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and tall central stuccoed stack with oversailing course and pots; renewed cast-iron verandah.
Symmetrical, Classical design with main facade to garden (west) front: two storeys, (attics to rear), four first floor windows with rear and side ranges. Stucco detailing includes full height Doric pilasters to ends and pair to centre. First floor has 6/6 sashes to in plain reveals and with sills. Ground floor has six-pane French windows with divided overlights, all with sidelights. Rear and side ranges have 6/6 sashes.
Entrances: that to south (right) return: six-raised-and-fielded-panel door with fanlight and decorative glazing bars; otherwise entrance to rear a renewed, panelled door in cambered surround. Rear retains 6/6 and 3/3 sashes in cambered-arched surrounds. Attic roof dormers have 3/3 sashes.
INTERIOR: retains stucco cornices and ceiling friezes; four-panel doors and fluted architraves.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Lark Hill development was intended to be much larger and to include terraces and a crescent.
Nos 30-50 (even) and Woodside, Lark Hill Road (qqv) form a good group of villas. No. 42 was formerly listed as No. 3 Larkhill Road.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488896
- 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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