Heron Lodge
HERON LODGE, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389968
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Heron Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- HERON LODGE, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389968
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Heron Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- HERON LODGE, LONDON 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:
- HERON LODGE, LONDON 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 86400 54071
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/01/2015
SO85SE
620-1/4/406
WORCESTER
LONDON ROAD (North East side)
Heron Lodge
(Formerly Listed as Heron Lodge, LARKHILL ROAD)
22/05/54
GV
II
Villa c1823-28 for Captain Powell with later additions and alterations including range to rear c1900. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof, 3 tall stuccoed end stacks with cornices and pots; timber and cast-iron verandah with lead and glazed roof. 2 storeys, 5 first-floor windows arranged 2:1:2. Stucco detailing includes plinth, full-height Doric pilasters to ends and to either side of central window. Wide eaves. 1/1 horned sashes throughout, all in plain reveals; those to ground floor have sills, those to first floor have louvered shutters. Central entrance: 3 steps to part-glazed door, the lower 2 panels flush and with reeding, fanlight has batwing and circle type glazing bars; tooled timber doorcase with fluted pilasters and open dentil pediment. Verandah at ground floor to front facade and right return has fluted columns and gothick frieze. Right return has 2 full-height canted bays with 1/1 sashes and casement windows.
INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork, with additions c1900. Openwell staircase with carved balusters and newel posts; Panelled shutters to windows, some 6-panel doors and fluted architraves with cornices and fleurons to angles. patterned tile floor to hall. Ground floor has cornices with acanthus moulding and further embellishment to ceiling.
Although now accessed from London Road, Heron Lodge was built as one of a group of Georgian villas along Lark Hill Road (qqv).
(Local History Research: Dr Pat Hughes: Heron Lodge and the development of Lark Hill: Worcester City Council: 1992-: 2).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488919
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hughes, P, Heron Lodge and the development of Lark Hill, (1992), 2
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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