Description

WORCESTER

SO8454NW BULL RING
620-1/15/145 (South side)
08/3/74 No.1
(Formerly Listed as:
BULL RING
Nos.1 AND 3, 5
(Eastern Half of No.5))

GV II

Terraced house, now dentists' surgery. c1800 with later additions
and alterations. Red brick over blue brick plinth; stone sills;
stone dressings to rear range. Plain clay tile roof; dentilled
eaves, painted. Stack to left rear roof slope and ridge-end
right, both have oversailing detail and pots. Timber doorcase.
Wrought-iron balconette. PLAN: double-depth with central hallway;
formerly single-depth. 3 storeys and cellar. 3 first-floor and 3
second-floor windows, central window on each floor is blind,
painted to represent sash. Window to left first-floor 6/6, to
right is tripartite 1/1:1/1:1/1; second-floor are 3/3;
ground-floor left is 6/6, to right is canted bay 2/2:6/6:2/2;
with exception of the latter all windows near-flush-frames with
sills and flat gauged-brick arches. 2 roll-edged stone steps to
off-centre left entrance, 6-panel door, all raised and fielded,
3-pane overlight; incised pilasters, cornice. Left-return has
semi-circular bay to ground-floor (10/10:6/6:10/10), bottom
sashes renewed; 6/6 sash above with balconette. Later parallel
range to rear projects to left as 3-sided apsidal-end with 1/1
sashes.
INTERIOR: Retains joinery details including 5-panel doors,
architraves, skirtings, dado and picture rails; staircase has
slender turned balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The First-Edition OS Map shows curved bay to
left return and rear range as extant in 1886.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317073

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)