Description

WORCESTER

SO85SW BRANSFORD ROAD
620-1/3/57 No.61
05/04/71 Belmont House

II

House. c1800 with later additions and alterations including C20
raising to bays. Reddish-pink brick, in Flemish bond to front
facade with gauged red brick flat arches; ashlar cornice; hipped
plain tile roof and off-centre right brick stack with oversailing
course; timber doorcase; cast-iron balconettes. Double-depth plan
with central hallway and single-storey service range to rear at
left. Ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes, second floor has
3/3 sashes; all in plain reveals and with sills, flat arches.
Central entrance: 2 roll-edged steps (1 renewed) to 6-panel door
(lower panels flush beaded, upper panels raised and fielded),
fanlight with glazing bars; doorcase has fluted pilasters and
corn and ribbon motif to 'frieze', open pediment with lozenge
motif. Garden (left) return: 2 canted ground-floor bays, both
raised to 2 storeys, have 8/8 and 6/6 sashes and French windows,
all under flat arches. Rear has two 6/6 sashes to first floor,
6/4 staircase sash and two 3/3 sashes, all with plain reveals and
cambered arches. To rear the outer windows have balconettes with
embellished bars and ornate scroll motifs. Modillion eaves band.
Right return: blind opening to first and second floors with
cambered arches and ground-floor 6/6 sash with cambered arch.
INTERIOR: retains original plasterwork and joinery; hall has
frieze with fleur-de-lys motif; 6-panel doors with tooled
architraves; pull-up shutters. Pine fireplace c1730 introduced
probably C20. Bays have column cluster stanchions (introduced
c1990s). Room to left has cornice with floral motif and flitched
beam, bolection-moulded fireplace (introduced C20 came from
College Gates) with cast-iron grate (with view of iron bridge at
Coalbrookdale). To rear a fireplace with corbel brackets.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317175

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Recommended Books

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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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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)