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
List Entry Name:: 8, 9 AND 9A, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
Statutory Address:: 8, 9 AND 9A, RAINBOW HILL TERRACE

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Official list entry

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

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.

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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)

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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).

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Legacy System number:: 489000
Legacy System:: LBS

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