4 AND 5, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
4 AND 5, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390047
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 4 AND 5, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 5, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390047
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 4 AND 5, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4 AND 5, 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:
- 4 AND 5, 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:
- SO8564555685
Details
WORCESTER
SO8555NE RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
620-1/10/482 (North side)
05/04/71 Nos.4 AND 5
II
Pair of houses forming part of terrace. c1830-50 with later
additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick; roof
concealed by coped parapet; end stacks, that to left has
oversailing details and pots. Wooden porch with wrought-iron
screen panel to left house; wooden balcony on cast-iron
pillars with wrought-iron embellishments to right-hand house.
Wooden door surround to both houses.
Double-depth with adjacent entrance halls.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 5 (3:2) second-floor
windows, 3 (2:1) first-floor windows, 3 (2:1) ground-floor
windows. Stucco detailing includes plinth, full-width band
above second-floor windows, plain architrave to ground-floor
window of right-hand house.
Left-hand house: windows are 6/6 sashes except second-floor
which are 3/6, all in plain reveals with sills. 6-steps to
Doric-style porch, geometric pattern decorative open screen to
left side; 4-panel door, upper pair of panels and centre panel
raised and fielded, bottom panel flush-beaded; matching
panelled reveals; plain fanlight. 6/6 sash to basement.
Right-hand house: Second-floor windows are 2/2 unequal sashes.
Large semi-circular oriel window to first-floor has blind
recess to front flanked by French windows with margin-glazing;
these access balcony, part-supported on columns,
part-cantilevered; simple metal balustrade. 6/6 sash to ground
floor. 6 steps to entrance, 6-panel door, bottom panels
flush-beaded, upper 4 panels glazed, door visually divided to
look like pair by flush bead; panelled reveals and soffit;
doorcase has fluted pilasters and matching frieze. Decorative
open screen to left of door matches that of left-hand house;
spandrel brackets to balcony columns are to the same pattern.
INTERIOR: noted as retaining original features including
panelled doors and window shutters, skirtings and architraves,
plaster cornices; right house has scrolled cast-iron
balustrade to staircase and polychromatic ceramic floor tiles
to hall.
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:
- 488998
- 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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