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QUEEN ELIZABETH ALMSHOUSES AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATES

QUEEN ELIZABETH ALMSHOUSES AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATES, UPPER TYTHING

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390243
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: QUEEN ELIZABETH ALMSHOUSES AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: QUEEN ELIZABETH ALMSHOUSES AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATES, UPPER TYTHING

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390243
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1989
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: QUEEN ELIZABETH ALMSHOUSES AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: QUEEN ELIZABETH ALMSHOUSES AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATES, 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:: QUEEN ELIZABETH ALMSHOUSES AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATES, 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 84735 55891

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WORCESTER

SO8455NE UPPER TYTHING 620-1/8/656 (East side) 19/01/89 Queen Elizabeth Almshouses and adjoining boundary walls and gates (Formerly Listed as: UPPER TYTHING (East side) Almshouses, blocks 1 and 2) (Formerly Listed as: UPPER TYTHING (East side) Almshouses, block 3) (Formerly Listed as: UPPER TYTHING (East side) Almshouses, blocks 4 and 5)

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Almshouses. 1876-77, with later alterations, by Aston Webb. Red brick with limestone dressings. Half-hipped, plain clay tile roof with finials; parapeted, coped end-gables terminated by rectangular brick stacks with heavily corbelled tops, all with pots. Timber balustrade with diagonal bracing above to centre first-floor window. Small decorative terracotta panels to gables of bay windows. Inscribed plaques to Upper Tything elevation in stucco within wooden frame and stone. PLAN: Double-depth, central hall houses arranged around 3-sides of a lawned courtyard. Similar plan form and elevations throughout; one block (Block No.3) to the north, two (Nos 4 and 5) to the east, and two (Nos 1 and 2) to the west with central entrance bay accessing courtyard. Each block has the same symmetrical facade with a central doorway flanked by full-height bays surmounted by gables. The principal elevation of Blocks 1 and 2 faces out onto Upper Tything whereas Blocks 3, 4 and 5 face inwards to the courtyard. 2 storeys. 3 first-floor windows. Stone detailing includes continuous sill and head bands to windows on both floors, that to the head of the ground-floor windows incorporating a projecting string course; gable copings; finials to apex of bay gables; voussoirs to arch to courtyard on Block 1 and 2. 3-light mullion windows with ovolo-moulded frame throughout, those to the ground-floor with transom; each centre light is a side-hung casement; with night-vent over on ground-floor. Centre first-floor window has a dropped sill and is slightly recessed behind a low balustrade with turned balusters; diagonal braces to upper corners of window recess. Dwarf walls approx. 0.6m. high with copings partially enclose area of blue-brick paving to bolection moulded 6-panel entrance door; overlight and sidelights down to level of sill-band; leaded panes to overlight and some transom lights. Blocks 1 and 2 onto Upper Tything are linked by a slightly recessed entrance bay giving access via a wide, open-archway to the courtyard. Voussoirs to arch with plaque above inscribed 'Erected by the Six Governors and Supervisors of the Free School and Almshouses' and dated 1878. Above this is a coving of 4 stucco panels within a moulded frame; the outer panels carry in relief the ancient (Quartered shield with castle) and modern (Shield with a fess and 3 black pears) Coat of Arms of the City; the centre pair of panels bear the date 1561 and the inscription 'Semper fidelis mutare sperno.' The corresponding area of wall above the arch on the rear elevation is in diagonal basket-weave pattern brickwork. Shallow single- and 2-storey wings to all rear elevations under plain clay tile roofs; C20 fenestration. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Wrought-iron gate and boundary wall of red brick with triangular blue brick coping to north; pair of wrought-iron gates and red brick gate piers with stone details to the west. To the north approximately 8 metres of 1.5 metre high wall links Block 1 and 2 with Block 3; pierced by pedestrian gate of simple design; a further length of wall runs due east from Block 3 for approx. 15m. To the west a pair of ornamental scrolled gates are hung on brick piers with roll-moulded arrises; stone plinth and pyramidal cap with dentilled frieze; The gates and piers have been relocated; this and the later low coped wall and railings to either side probably relate to the widening of the road in the first-half of the C20. HISTORICAL NOTE: 1561 is the date of the Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I which refounded what became the Royal Grammar School. It also provided for the appointment of the Six Masters to be Governors and supervisors of the 'Free School and Almose houses of the Cittie of Worcester.' Pevsner (B.o.E.) gives the architect as Gibbons of a local partnership, Lord and Parker. Research done at Birmingham University by Richard Lockett indicates the Almshouses to be an example of the early work of Aston Webb. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334).

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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.