Description

WORCESTER

SO8454NE COLLEGE YARD
620-1/16/192 (North side)
22/05/54 Nos.5 AND 5A
with attached railings
and rear courtyard walls
(Formerly Listed as:
COLLEGE YARD
Nos.5 AND 5A)

GV II

Formerly known as: No.5 COLLEGE YARD.
House, now offices with attached railings to front and
courtyard walls to rear. c1800. Reddish-orange brick in
Flemish bond with plain tile roof, tall ridge and end brick
stacks with oversailing courses and pots, stone sills and
doorcase, timber eaves, cast-iron railings, basement covers
and lamp. L-plan occupying a corner site, with further wing at
rear. 3 storeys on basement and with attics, 3 + 3 first-floor
windows. Ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes except 2 to
ground floor at right are 2/2 sashes; second floor has 3/3
sashes, all in plain reveals and with sills and flat arches of
gauged brick. 2 + 1 box roof dormers have 3/3 sashes.
Basement: to left a 6/6 sash, then entrance a part-glazed
door. At right a half-basement, now blocked. Basements have
cast-iron covers with scroll design, renewed at right. Central
entrance: quadrant porch to angle, 3 renewed steps curved on
plan to 6-panel door, the upper panels raised and fielded,
lower panels flush beaded, fanlight with petal glazing bars;
tooled round arch on fleurons within pilastered surround with
acanthus corbel brackets with oval motif above and fluted
frieze, continuous cornice to porch. Crowning frieze,
cyma-moulded cornice. Rear has canted bay to full height with
tripartite window on ground and second floors with 6/6 between
/4 sashes, Venetian window to first floor with 6/6
round-arched sash with gothic glazing bars between 2/4 sashes,
otherwise 6/6 and 3/6 sashes and Diocletian window at right.
INTERIOR: retains original plasterwork including moulded
cornices, some to ground floor with fleurons, and joinery
including panelled shutters; openwell staircase has stick
balusters and wreathed handrail.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps with curved
handrail, renewed railings at left; cast-iron boot scraper.
Ramped courtyard walls at rear approximately 6 x 12 x 6 metres
by 3 metres high. Archway with imposts and
6-flush-panel door in centre of rear wall.
All the listed buildings in College Yard (qqv) form a group
with and part of the setting for the Cathedral (qv).

(NMR: Photograph).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669166

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)