8, 9 AND 9A, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
8, 9 AND 9A, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390049
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 8, 9 AND 9A, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
- Statutory Address:
- 8, 9 AND 9A, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390049
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 8, 9 AND 9A, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, 9 AND 9A, 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:
- 8, 9 AND 9A, 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 85678 55679
Details
WORCESTER
SO8555NE RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
620-1/10/484 (North side)
05/04/71 Nos.8, 9 AND 9A
(Formerly Listed as:
RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
Nos.8 AND 9)
GV II
Pair of houses forming part of terrace. c1830-50 with later
additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick; roof
concealed by coped parapet; paired end stacks rising from
curvilinear parapet have oversailing detail and pots. Wooden
porch to left house. Wrought-iron railings to entrance steps
and first-floor balconettes.
PLAN: double-depth with adjacent entrance halls.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 4 first-floor windows. Stucco
incised to represent ashlar, detailing includes arch-headed
recesses for first-floor windows with mask crowning ribbed
pendant shell ornamental tympana; sill band and band linking
heads of these windows; further plain band at eaves level.
First-floor sashes are tall 6/9 with bowed lattice
balconettes, second-floor are 6/6. The left-hand ground-floor
window is 14/8, with a semi-circular arched head and
intersecting Gothic tracery glazing bars to the upper sash.
The right-hand ground-floor window is 6/6. A flight of 6 steps
leads up from the left and right to access each house; slender
round balusters to left-hand railings, those to right are
replacement. Left door is 5-panel, glazed upper panels,
bolection moulded centre panel, the bottom pair of panels are
flush double-beaded with stepped corners; fanlight with
'umbrella' glazing pattern; Tuscan-style porch with mutules.
Right door is 5-panel, the upper panels are raised and fielded
with bolection mouldings, the bottom pair are flush-beaded;
3-pane overlight.
To the right-return, very slightly recessed is a 2-storey wing
(a separate dwelling as rom c1974), the roof is concealed by a
parapet which rises at the centre to carry a fluted urn; the
stucco bands from the main elevation run through. The single
first-floor window is 13/8 with semi-circular arched head in
similar style to that in the left-hand house, two 4/4 sashes
on the ground-floor; all in plain reveals with sills. To the
left is a semi-circular headed recess with plain tympanum and
5-panel door, the upper pair and centre panel raised and
fielded with bolection mouldings, the bottom pair
flush-beaded; 4-steps to entrance.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
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:
- 489000
- 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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