Priory House at Worcester Royal Grammar School
PRIORY HOUSE AT WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UPPER TYTHING
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Overview
- 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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- 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
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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)
GV II
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).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489213
- 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.
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