48 AND 50, LARK HILL
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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- 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
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:
- 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.
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