NOS 1 AND 3, APRIL COTTAGE (NO 1) AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO REAR

APRIL COTTAGE (NO 1) AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO REAR, 1 AND 3, NORTHWICK ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390027
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 AND 3, APRIL COTTAGE (NO 1) AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO REAR
Statutory Address:: APRIL COTTAGE (NO 1) AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO REAR, 1 AND 3, NORTHWICK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390027
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 AND 3, APRIL COTTAGE (NO 1) AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO REAR
Statutory Address 1:: APRIL COTTAGE (NO 1) AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO REAR, 1 AND 3, NORTHWICK ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: APRIL COTTAGE (NO 1) AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO REAR, 1 AND 3, NORTHWICK 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:: SO8455856943

Details

SO85NW 620-1/1/466

WORCESTER NORTHWICK ROAD Nos.1 AND 3 April Cottage (No.1) and attached garden wall to rear

Formerly Listed as: NORTHWICK ROAD Nos.1 AND 2

08/03/74 GV II

House, now 2 houses with attached garden wall. Late C16/early C17 with later additions and alterations including early C18 range to left and with further additions of c1900-35 (outshuts to left and right); c1950-70 rebuilding to ground floor of main range. Timber frame with brick nogging and wattle and daub infill, plastered externally and brick now painted or pebble-dashed in parts, with plain tile roof; 3 tall stack and triple stack with oversailing course and pots to party-wall; pinkish-brown brick wall. L-shaped block: gable faces street to right part; wing parallel to road at left has double-pitch roof and outshut under pentice roof to left return; further outshut to right return. EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys with attic, 2 first-floor windows with range to left of one-and-a-half storeys, 2 ground-floor windows with half-dormer. Timber framing is exposed externally to the main range, front and rear and to the rear range of the left-hand wing. Main range has jowled end posts with exposed bressumer over ground floor and tie beam and with small panels of square and rectangular framing to first and attic floors. Leaded lights throughout, some with stained glass; windows to left part under elliptical arches. Entrances: that to left range in outshut: renewed part-glazed door with stained glass. That to right (main) range in outshut to right, a renewed door. INTERIOR: main range, ground floor has main room to left with chamfered axial beam, to rear are 2 transverse beams. 1 plank door. Barrel-vaulted cellar. Exposed square panels of timber framing to upper stages, tie beam and jowled post to centre. First-floor beams have triangular-chamfered stops. Exposed massive chamfered purlins, some exposed braces. Left part retains chamfered beams: room to front has 2 transverse beams; some first-floor C19 fireplaces. Exposed purlins and collar beam, some exposed timber frame. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall to rear abuts left part and extends for approximately 10 metres, about 2 metres high. HISTORICAL NOTE: the range to left may have originally been a barn. The building was divided c1920.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 488978
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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