1, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
1, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390044
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 1, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
- Statutory Address:
- 1, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390044
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 1, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
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:
- 1, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
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 85622 55691
Details
WORCESTER
SO8555NE RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
620-1/10/479 (North side)
05/04/71 No.1
(Formerly Listed as:
RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
Nos.1 AND 2)
GV II
Terraced house. c1830-50 with later additions and alterations.
Painted stucco over brick; C20 interlocking concrete tiles
replacing slate; curvilinear parapeted gable to left in brick
with brick coping, incorporates stack; wide eaves.
Wrought-iron balustrade to first-floor.
Double-depth plan with hall to right.
EXTERIOR: 2-storeys with basement and attic. 3 first-floor
windows. Stucco detailing includes eaves band with modillions
and brackets to soffit, square recessed panels between each
bracket; corbels to upper-floor window sills; moulded cornice
with plain frieze above entrance. First-floor sashes are 1/1
in plain reveals with sills; recess to right has a French
window with overlight, Tuscan-style column to each reveal
linked by elongated figure-of-eight motif balustrade. Hipped
roof bay to ground-floor left, 1/1 sash with 1/1 sidelights,
2-pane fixed-light to each return. 6 roll-edged stone-steps
with low flanking walls to recessed porch with Tuscan-style
antae; paired replacement part-glazed doors with sidelights
and overlight. Pair of gabled dormers with 4-pane casements.
Very narrow full-height wing set well back to left return has
1/1 sashes and 20 replacement window. The porch has a
polychromatic ceramic tile floor that continues into the hall.
INTERIOR: noted as retaining some original plaster cornices
and joinery details including 4-panel doors; staircase has
slender turned balusters and wreathed handrail.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Nos 1-10 (consecutive) Rainbow Hill Terrace
(qqv) form a good group of listed buildings comparing well
with other developments of this period in Worcester such as
Britannia Square, Lansdowne Crescent, and Lark Hill (qqv).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488995
- 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.
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