GASCOYNE HOUSE (FLAT NOS 1-7 CONSECUTIVE)

GASCOYNE HOUSE (FLAT NOS 1-7 CONSECUTIVE), SOUTH QUAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390180
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: GASCOYNE HOUSE (FLAT NOS 1-7 CONSECUTIVE)
Statutory Address:: GASCOYNE HOUSE (FLAT NOS 1-7 CONSECUTIVE), SOUTH QUAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390180
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: GASCOYNE HOUSE (FLAT NOS 1-7 CONSECUTIVE)
Statutory Address 1:: GASCOYNE HOUSE (FLAT NOS 1-7 CONSECUTIVE), SOUTH QUAY

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GASCOYNE HOUSE (FLAT NOS 1-7 CONSECUTIVE), SOUTH QUAY

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:: SO8474654778

Details

WORCESTER

SO8454NE SOUTH QUAY 620-1/16/543 (North side) 05/04/71 Gascoyne House (Flat Nos 1-7 consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: QUAY STREET (West side) Warehouse occupied by Messrs G Gascoyne)

GV II

Hop and seed warehouse, now flats. Mid C19 with later alterations including c1980s conversion to flats. Pinkish-red brick with yellow and purple brick plinth all in English Bond, cement lintels and sills, and with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 10 first-floor windows. 2 hoisting lofts on river side. All windows are renewed and loading bays are now glazed. Stepped cornice and wide eaves. Return to Hood Street has 6 first-floor windows; the angle is curved on plan. Rear: central wide, cambered arch originally allowing access through building. INTERIOR: renewed, not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Occupying a corner site, this is a significant streetscape feature overlooking the River Severn, forming a group of former warehouses with Brown's Restaurant and Bond House, South Quay (qqv); and together with Merchant's House, Quay Street (qv), Worcester Bridge, Bridge Street (qv) and St Andrew's Church Tower, Deansway (qv), these buildings form part of the visual framework of Worcester Cathedral (qv) from the River.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 489150
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.