Whiteladies House at Worcester Grammar School
WHITELADIES HOUSE AT WORCESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UPPER TYTHING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1390245
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Whiteladies House at Worcester Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- WHITELADIES HOUSE AT WORCESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UPPER TYTHING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1390245
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Whiteladies House at Worcester Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITELADIES HOUSE AT WORCESTER 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:
- WHITELADIES HOUSE AT WORCESTER 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:
- SO8478655806
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE UPPER TYTHING
620-1/8/658 (East side)
22/05/54 Whiteladies House at
Worcester Royal Grammar
School
(Formerly Listed as:
THE TYTHING
(West side)
Whiteladies House (Royal
Grammar School))
GV II*
House, now part of Worcester Royal Grammar School. c1720 with
later additions and alterations; also incorporates the remains
of the C13 chapel of the Cistercian Nunnery of Whiteladies
which formerly occupied the site. Ref. also Priory House (qv).
Red brick with plain clay tile roof. Stacks to rear roof slope
with oversailing detail and pots. Stone sills and doorcase.
Early C18 stairhall plan, with mid C20 extension to rear. 2
storeys. 11 first-floor windows. Brick detailing includes
plinth; bands above ground and first-floor windows; dentilled
eaves; contrasting headers to segmental arches of window
openings. Sashes are 4/4 except window to left and 2 windows
to right of entrance which are 6/6 with higher sills. Entrance
is off-centre right, 6-panel door; late C18 radial pattern
traceried fanlight; Ionic-style doorcase with open pediment. 7
gabled dormers have aired side-hung casements each of 3-panes.
Remains of C13 chapel abut the right-return, with two lancet
windows above smaller recesses.
INTERIOR: retains some early features including red and black
tiled floor to hall, staircase with heavy section handrail and
slender turned balusters, some 2 panel doors and exposed
beams. Early C17 reset panelling in rear first-floor room.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 325; Anon: A Short History of the
Royal Grammar School: 1985-).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489216
- 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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