Woodside
WOODSIDE, LARK HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389948
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Woodside
- Statutory Address:
- WOODSIDE, LARK HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389948
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Woodside
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODSIDE, LARK HILL ROAD
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:
- WOODSIDE, LARK HILL ROAD
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 86345 54246
Details
WORCESTER
SO85SE LARK HILL ROAD
620-1/4/385 Woodside
22/05/54 Formerly Listed as:
PERRY WOOD ROAD
Woodside)
GV II
Villa, now offices. c1819-24 with later additions and
alterations. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof; 3 stuccoed
off-centre rear and side stacks; painted ashlar porch. 2 storeys
on basement and with attics, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco
detailing (similar to main facades) includes plinth, plain
pilasters to centre and sides surmounted by plain frieze and
dentil cornice. Centre first-floor window is recessed. First
floor has 8/8 sashes, ground floor has tall 2/4 sashes, all in
plain reveals and with sills. Basement has replacement casement
windows. Central entrance, flight of 5 renewed steps to distyle
Doric porch with pilaster responds and entablature, bulbous
balusters at sides of upper step. Concealed attics. Garden
facade: 4 first-floor windows. First floor has 8/8 sashes; ground
floor has 2/2 sashes. Rear has 3 first-floor windows; first floor
has 8/8 sashes, ground floor has 2 tripartite windows with 8/8
between 2 sashes, and 2/4 between 2 sashes. Flight of steps to
central entrance in canted solid porch, 2-moulded-panel door and
cambered overlight with decorative glazing bars. To right return
a staircase window with 6/9 sash and radial glazing to head.
INTERIOR: retains many original features including plasterwork
and joinery; dogleg staircase with stick balusters and wreathed
handrail, carved tread ends. Archway to hall on acanthus corbels;
rear hall has Coalbrookdale tile floor. Main reception room to
ground floor has well embellished cornices with Neo-Classical
details; modillion cornice to room at rear. Ground floor rooms
have shutters to windows. Egg-and-dart frieze to first-floor
landing and some rooms. 4- and 6-panel doors in fluted surrounds.
Lightwell to landing. Marble Regency fireplace to first floor
with roundels; further fireplace c1900. Cellar has barrel-vaulted
ceiling.
HISTORIC NOTE: Francis Barnitt (d.1911), benefactor of St
Martin's Church, lived here with his family. The suburbs along
London Road, which include ose Hill, Lark Hill and Green Hill
(qqv), were developed from c1785 and advertised as houses 'with
ornamental and stucco walls' with views over the River Severn
towards the Malvern Hills. The Lark Hill development, c1819-24,
was originally intended to be more extensive with terraces and a
crescent.
Nos 38-50 (even) Lark Hill and Woodside,(qqv) form a good group
of villas.
(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:
- 488899
- 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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