BUSHWACKERS

BUSHWACKERS, THE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1390182
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: BUSHWACKERS
Statutory Address:: BUSHWACKERS, THE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1390182
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: BUSHWACKERS
Statutory Address 1:: BUSHWACKERS, THE AVENUE

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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:: BUSHWACKERS, THE AVENUE

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 85035 55034

Details

WORCESTER

SO8555SW THE AVENUE 620-1/13/595 (East side) 22/05/54 Bushwackers (originally The Old Trinity House) (Formerly Listed as: THE AVENUE Church House)

GV II*

Formerly known as: The Old Trinity House THE AVENUE. Also known as: Bushwackers (formerly Church House and originally The Old Trinity House) TRINITY STREET. House, diocesan office, now restaurant. c1750 with later additions and alterations including rebuilding to west facade and additions probably of 1907; restorations and conversion to restaurant c1994. West facade of red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar pilasters, porch, keystones and finials; east facade of pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar quoins and architraves; rendered basement; plain tile hipped roof, tall clusters of north ridge and south end pinkish-red brick stacks with oversailing courses and pots. PLAN: central stairhall, single-depth plan, the ground-floor has been altered but the south room is intact, a corridor at north west allowed access to wing and service stair c1907 and may have been original, this north room has now been opened up. The rear (east) facade is in Gothick style. EXTERIOR: West facade: 2 storeys with attics, 3 bays with 1:5:1 first-floor windows and projecting 2-lower-storey wings to either side. 2 giant part-fluted pilasters frame centre 3 windows, surmounted by crowning frieze and broken pediment with central obelisk, obelisks also over columns. 1/1 horned sashes to centre and 6/2 sashes to outer bays with flat arches of gauged brick. Rusticated central porch has scrolled swan neck pediment with re-used finial and 2 outer finials, double panelled doors, cambered fanlight with radial glazing bars and luted keystone. Worn plaque over door reads: 'The Old Trinity House / ... the ... re-constructed / .... foundations; / .... 1907 adapted as the ... Worcester Diocesan Church House.' 2 attic roof dormers with pedimented gables and 6/1 sashes. Wings have full-height 5-sided bays; 6/6, 6/1, and 1/1 sashes. East facade: 2 storeys with attics and basement, 3 bays; the centre bay projects. Quoins to angles, those to centre are alternate brick and stone. Outer bays and returns to centre have 3-course band. Windows to ground and first floors are Venetian but with ogeed arches to centre and round arches to outer windows; 6/6 sash to centres with ogeed glazing bars to heads, between 4/4 sashes with Y-glazing to heads; shaped architraves with finial to apex of ogee, imposts and sills. Central entrance in similar surround: steps to part-glazed, renewed door with ogeed overlight with Gothick glazing bars between round-arched windows, 4-pane lights with Y-tracery to heads; shaped architrave with imposts. Above entrance a shaped plaque. Crowning moulded cornice. 3 roof dormers have 6/2 sashes and ogeed gables with Gothick glazing bars. Basement: to left are 3 pointed-arched recesses and gabled buttresses between; to right a single arched opening with Gothick glazing bars to blind head. INTERIOR: retains much original plasterwork and joinery. Cantilevered staircase with shaped tread ends and understairs has elaborate wrought-iron balustrade and ramped handrail with large wreath; panelled dado with fluted pilasters. Embellished architraves to Venetian windows with column clusters between sashes throughout and with ogees surmounted by urns. Plasterwork: to hall an embellished frieze and cornice with quatrefoils to ground floor and fleurons to first floor, ground floor ceiling has delicate plaster rose, upper floor has oval with swags and scrolling grape motif within and scrolled embellishments to angles. Ground floor room to south has central ceiling motif with musical instruments and doves; egg and dart cornice; north room has central embellished oval and foliate motifs to angles. Some windows to west facade retain C18 joinery including panelled shutters, now painted in. Basement has twist-stem columns around walls and ribs to barrel-vaulted ceiling. HISTORICAL NOTE: Pevsner surmises that 'underlying some of the evidently Victorian work on the front ... there is an early C18 house with giant fluted pilasters and fluted keystones'. The house, originally known as The Old Trinity House, was from 1907 the Worcester Diocesan Church House and c1968-85 the City Department of Health; it as converted to a restaurant c1994. One of an excellent group of C18 buildings in The Cross, from which The Avenue leads as a short driveway, forming a good group with Former Church of St Nicholas, Premises occupied by Bradford and Bingley Building Society, Premises occupied by Halifax Building Society, Premises occupied by Lloyds Bank, and Nos 20, 21, 28 and 31(qqv). Pevsner calls this 'Worcester's premier Gothic Revival House'. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 331).

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 489152
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 331

Legal

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