Description

WORCESTER

SO8554SE BATTENHALL PLACE
620-1/21/51 (South East side)
22/5/54 Nos.1 AND 2

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses. c1820 with later additions and
alterations. Painted stucco and brick. Slate roof with parapeted
gables, stone coping to the left, brick to right; mutular eaves.
Party-wall ridge stack, further stack to left gable, both with
oversailing detail and pots. Timber doorcases. Lead roof and
cheeks to dormer. Double-depth plan, each house has central lobby
entrance. Symmetrical facade. 2 storeys with attic and cellar. 5
(2:1:2) first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes sills,
plinth, chamfered rustication to ground-floor terminated by plain
band over window heads; first-floor lined to represent ashlar
with false quoins flanked by brick piers of gable ends;
rusticated aprons below first-floor windows; channelled wedge
lintels to window openings, that to centre ground-floor is
stepped with lion's head in relief to keystone; window above has
eared architrave and semicircular arched head with fluted radial
shell motif to tympanum, swag above. Windows are all 6/6 in
near-flush frames; centre window to each floor is false. Matching
entrances with stone steps to 6-panel door, all raised and
fielded; fanlight to left is plain, that to right is a petal
design; pilaster doorcase with frieze and cornice; relief
decoration includes acanthus leaves, putti and musical
instruments. Central dormer with cambered roof; central mullion
with 3/3 sash to each side. Sash windows to returns, flat gauged
brick arches with keystones.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth:
1968-1985: 335).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26641811

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)