48 AND 50, LARK HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389947
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 48 AND 50, LARK HILL
Statutory Address:: 48 AND 50, LARK HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389947
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: 48 AND 50, LARK HILL
Statutory Address 1:: 48 AND 50, LARK HILL

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:: 48 AND 50, 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:: SO8638354128

Details

WORCESTER

SO85SE LARK HILL 620-1/4/384 Nos.48 AND 50 22/05/54 Formerly Listed as: LARKHILL ROAD No.48) Formerly Listed as: LARKHILL ROAD No.50)

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas. c1819-24 with later additions and alterations. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and stuccoed party-wall stacks. Symmetrical, Classical design; main facade to garden (west) facade. 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows, with side ranges set back each with 1 first-floor window and rear service ranges, now garage and annexe. Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground floor drawn into voussoirs over wide, segmental-arched window recesses; cyma-moulded cornice over ground floor surmounted by Doric pilasters to ends and pairs of Doric pilasters between windows; entablature and blocking course. First floor has 6/6 sashes with blind boxes; second floor has 3/3 sashes; ground floor has 6/6 sashes; all in plain reveals. To right a timber verandah. Ranges set back to sides have similar fenestration. Renewed entrances to rear. To right return a 2-storey bow window with tripartite 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, curved on section. INTERIOR: No.48 has original plasterwork and joinery including dogleg staircase with carved tread ends, stick balusters and wreathed handrail; panelled shutters to some windows; acanthus frieze to ground-floor cornices; some Victorian fireplaces. HISTORIC NOTE: the Lark Hill development, 1819-24, was originally intended to have been more extensive with terraces and a crescent. Nos 38-50 (even) and Woodside, Lark Hill Road (qqv) form a good group of Victorian villas. No.48 was formerly listed as No.6 and No.50 was formerly listed as No.7 Lark Hill Road. (Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian Worcs: 1989-: 44).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488898
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), 44

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.