The Pheasant
THE PHEASANT, 25, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1390016
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Pheasant
- Statutory Address:
- THE PHEASANT, 25, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1390016
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Pheasant
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PHEASANT, 25, NEW STREET
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:
- THE PHEASANT, 25, NEW STREET
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:
- SO8516954898
Details
WORCESTER
SO8554NW NEW STREET
620-1/17/454 (East side)
22/05/54 No.25
The Pheasant
Formerly Listed as:
NEW STREET
(East side)
No.25
Old Pheasant Inn)
GV II*
Large house, now public house (shown as Pheasant Inn on 1886
O.S. map, thought to have first become an inn at end of C18).
Late C16 with subsequent alterations and extensions; major
structural repairs c1984. Possibly built for George Stinton.
Timber frame with rendered infill panels believed to be brick.
Plain clay tile roof.
Rectangular plan of 4 bays but originally L-plan with stair
turret to angle and pedestrian through-passage at left, widened
in C18 as coach entrance.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, upper storeys jettied. 4 first-floor
windows. Framing is a mixture of close-studding and square
panels with some herringbone decoration. The partially renewed
bressumer to the second floor has a stepped cyma moulding.
Carved and gilded console brackets to coach entrance. Several
of the posts incorporate slender pilasters with plinth and
capital supporting console brackets [cf 29 New Street (qqv)]. 2
purlins per roof slope. Mainly 6/6 sashes to first-floor, those
to left and right are tripartite with 4/4 flanking sashes; pair
of side-hung casements to left of right-hand window. 3-light
mullion and transom windows to centre and right ground-floor,
renewed square leaded panes, frieze with applied carved and
gilded decoration, cornice. Leaded casements to second-floor.
Left-return which also forms a party-wall to No.26 is mainly
brick. Right-return is horizontal weatherboarding over square
panel framing.
INTERIOR: Ground-floor to front has 4 panels to beamed ceiling,
the beams cribed with drawn-out plaster moulding to borders of
each panel; similar 2 panels to left, the beams intersected by
carriageway partition; similar ceilings to first-floor left and
second-floor. First-floor room to left has stop-chamfered beams
to 6-panel ceiling, traces of black-line decoration to wall
infill panels. Panelling in left-hand room. turned balusters
and moulded handrail to late C16 staircase, a remarkable
survival.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a notable survival of a late C16 town house
with interior features and clear evidence of its original plan
form.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 329; Molyneux N, Hughes P, Price S:
Vernacular Architecture Group Spring Conference Worcs 1995:
2.9; Hughes P: Bldgs and the Bldg Trade in Worcester 1540-1650
(PhD Thesis): 1990-: 148-9, 175, 439).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488967
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 329
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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