PRIORY HOUSE AT WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL

PRIORY HOUSE AT WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UPPER TYTHING

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390242
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: PRIORY HOUSE AT WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: PRIORY HOUSE AT WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UPPER TYTHING

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390242
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: PRIORY HOUSE AT WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: PRIORY HOUSE AT WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UPPER TYTHING

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:: PRIORY HOUSE AT WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UPPER TYTHING

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 84748 55783

Details

WORCESTER

SO8455NE UPPER TYTHING 620-1/8/655 (East side) 22/05/54 Priory House at Worcester Royal Grammar School (Formerly Listed as: THE TYTHING (West side) Priory House)

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House, now part of Worcester Royal Grammar School. c1730 with later additions and alterations; incorporates the remains of the C13 chapel of the Cistercian Nunnery of Whiteladies which formerly occupied the site. Ref. also Whiteladies House (qv). Red brick with stone detailing; plain clay tile roof. Timber doorcase, canopy and brackets. 2 storeys with cellar and attics. 5 first-floor windows. Brick detailing includes plinth and plain eaves band surmounted by dentils. Stone detailing ncludes fluted keystones with moulded caps to window heads; sills. Windows are all 6/6 sashes, near-flush frames under gauged brick flat arches. 6-panel entrance door with 3-light overlight; simple doorcase and flat canopy on shaped brackets. 3 cambered-roof dormers with curved head 3/3 sashes. INTERIOR: retains staircase with wreathed handrail with unusual 'S'-curved ramps, slender turned balusters with knops. Some 2-panel doors on upper floors. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 325).

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Legacy System number:: 489213
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.