Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BARBOURNE ROAD
620-1/8/30 (East side)
22/5/54 Nos.18 AND 20
(Formerly Listed as:
BARBOURNE ROAD
(East side)
Nos.18 AND 20
College House (No.20))

GV II

2 houses, now flats, part of terrace. c1800 with later
additions and alterations. Red brick with hipped slate roof to
left-hand house, plain clay tile roof to right-hand. Stack tor
ear roof slope of left-house with oversailing details and
string courses in contrasting blue and yellow brick. Lead
roofs and side cheeks to box dormers. Painted stone sills;
stone steps. Timber door cases. Double-depth plan with
adjacent entrances and hallways. Asymmetrical facade,
left-hand house 3-storey, right-house 2-storeys with attics,
both with cellars. 4 first-floor windows. Plat band between
ground- and first-floor windows. Yellow brick eaves courses to
left, dentilled eaves to right-hand house. 1/1 sashes to left
house, 6/6 to right, all in plain reveals with segmental brick
arches and sills. 2 full-dormers to right-hand house with
3-pane paired casements. Doric-style doorcases with engaged
part-fluted columns on plinths, fluted frieze with carved
rosette to each end and leaf motif to centre, cornice. 2 steps
to each entrance; 6-panel door to left, all raised and
fielded; matching panelled reveals; radial pattern fanlight
with segmental margin glazing; right-hand entrance similar but
door is5-panel, bottom pair of panels flush-double-beaded,
otherwise raised and fielded. Fire-insurance plaque to left
front-elevation. Return elevation to left-house has pair of
canted bays with 6/6:8/8:6/6 sashes. Further 6/6 sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26641784

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