Description

WORCESTER

SO8554SW COLLEGE GREEN
620-1/20/161 (South side)
05/04/71 No.6
Castle House

GV II

Large house, now part of school. Abuts No.5 to left. Late C18
origins, partially rebuilt c1900 by A. Hill Parker (architect)
and Stokes Brothers (builders) following extensive fire; later
additions and alterations. Painted stucco, painted rough-cast
and painted brick, stone dressings; tile-hung second-floor.
Plain clay tile roofs, that to right hipped. Modillioned
eaves. Bracketted eaves to gable of canted bay. End stacks,
brick to left, stucco to right, all with oversailing detail
and pots. Timber doorcase. Double-fronted, double-depth plan.
Through-passage to right ground-floor flanked by sandstone
wall (qv) to west. 2 and 3-storeys with attic. 4 first-floor
windows. Stone detailing includes all sills and moulded string
to heads of ground-floor windows. 2-storey range to left set
back slightly, full-height canted bay, centre mullions,
4/1:4/1:4/1:4/1. Windows to main range are all 6/6. Those to
ground and first-floor windows are near-flush with moulded
architraves. 6/6 sashes to second-floor. Central 6-panel door,
top pair glazed, raised and fielded to centre, bottom pair
flush-beaded. 3-pane overlight; 'Tower of Winds' style columns
to doorcase, frieze and cornice. Door to passage at extreme
right, 6-panel raised and fielded with bolection moulding;
moulded architrave, small cornice. Gabled dormer with paired
6-pane side-hung casements. Further ranges to left return and
to rear. Lower part of right-return wall (qv) is sandstone
ashlar, part of another earlier structure.
INTERIOR: late C18 joinery, including panelled doors in
moulded timber architraves; late C19 decorative plasterwork to
first-floor right; staircase and fire surrounds with Art
Nouveau detail of c1900.
All the listed buildings in College Green are part of a
significant group forming the setting for Worcester Cathedral
(qv) to the north side. The rear boundary wall to Nos. 2-6
College Green (qqv) is part of the Monastic Precinct Wall
(Scheduled Ancient Monument).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334; Worcester Cathedral
Publications: Knowles Joan M: College Green Worcester
1800-1900: Worcester: 1995-).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317096

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)