Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW COLLEGE STREET
620-1/17/184 (West side)
05/04/71 No.27
Columbus House
(Formerly Listed as:
COLLEGE STREET
(West side)
Nos.27, 28 AND 29)

GV II

House, now offices. c1808-1832 with later additions and
alterations including c1980s shop front. Pinkish-red brick in
Flemish bond to ground and first floors with red brick in
Flemish bond to second floor; stone sills and red gauged brick
arches; slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows.
First-floor has 6/6 sashes; second-floor has 8/8 horned
sashes, all in shallow reveals and with flat arches and sills.
Ground floor: entrance at right a 6-panel door, the upper 4
panels raised and fielded, lower flush beaded in flush beaded
reveals and with pilastered doorcase with open pediment.
Renewed shop front in Victorian style. Modillion eaves band.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: apparently not shown on Young's Map c1808 but
shown on Clements's Map of 1832.
(Young G: Map of Worcester: London: 1808-; Clements J: A Plan
of the City and Environs of Worcester: Worcester: 1832-).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669158

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (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)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)