SANSOME LODGE (NO 4) AND SANSOME HOUSE (NO 6)

SANSOME LODGE (NO 4) AND SANSOME HOUSE (NO 6), 4 AND 6, SANSOME WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390139
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: SANSOME LODGE (NO 4) AND SANSOME HOUSE (NO 6)
Statutory Address:: SANSOME LODGE (NO 4) AND SANSOME HOUSE (NO 6), 4 AND 6, SANSOME WALK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390139
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: SANSOME LODGE (NO 4) AND SANSOME HOUSE (NO 6)
Statutory Address 1:: SANSOME LODGE (NO 4) AND SANSOME HOUSE (NO 6), 4 AND 6, SANSOME WALK

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:: SANSOME LODGE (NO 4) AND SANSOME HOUSE (NO 6), 4 AND 6, SANSOME WALK

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 85049 55306

Details

WORCESTER

SO8555SW SANSOME WALK 620-1/13/500 (East side) 22/05/54 Nos.4 AND 6 Sansome Lodge (No.4) and Sansome House (No.6) (Formerly Listed as: SANSOME WALK (East side) Nos.4 AND 6)

GV II

House, now offices. Numbered right to left, described left to right. Mid C18 for CT Withers, with later additions and alterations including wing to rear at left of Mid C19. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with plain tile hipped roof, brick stack to off-centre left and to left return with oversailing course and pots, renewed stack at right. PLAN: probably originally L-plan, now U-plan; originally with central entrance. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 2:3:2 first-floor windows. Central pedimented breakforward. First floor has 6/6 cambered-headed sashes; ground floor has 6/6, two 10/10 and two 6/6 cambered-headed sashes; all in plain reveals and with sills and cambered arches of gauged brick. Moulded timber cornice, renewed. Pediment has lunette with gothic glazing bars. 2 box dormers with 3/3 cambered-headed sashes. Entrances to centre and off-centre left, alike: 6-raised-and-fielded-panel doors, the upper lights glazed, in tooled architraves, pilastered surrounds with fluted console brackets surmounted by frieze and segmental pediments. Right return (originally garden facade): 2:3:2 first-floor windows. Central breakforward. Mainly 6/6 cambered-headed sashes where original, in plain reveals and with sills and cambered arches of gauged brick; bow window to ground floor has two 10/10 sashes, curved on plan. Further entrance a part-glazed door in surround with Doric pilasters, frieze and cornice. 2 box dormers as front facade. Left return: similar 6/6 cambered-beaded sashes and extension with 6/6 staircase sash with radial glazing bars to head. Attic with 12/12 sash. INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork. To left part a closed string, open newel staircase with shaped and ramped handrail and elongated-onion balusters, square newel posts; panelled dado. Ovolo-moulded cornice to hall. 6-flush-panel doors. Marble fireplace to front room at right. HISTORICAL NOTE: originally Sansome House, a seat of the Withers family, set in large grounds. Shown on George Young's Map of 1779. Nos 4 and 6 Sansome Walk form a group with Nos 4-8 (consecutive) and Nos 11, 12, 12A and 13 Pierpoint Street (qqv).

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 489109
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.