Description

WORCESTER

SO8454NE COLLEGE YARD
620-1/16/196 (West side)
22/05/54 No.10
with attached walls,
railings, gate and pier
(Formerly Listed as:
COLLEGE YARD
No.10)

GV II

House with attached walls, railings, gate and pier. Probably
c1680-1700 on an earlier site and re-using earlier materials
and retaining earlier elements including former entrance to
charnel chapel crypt c1224 and probably C14 wall to basement
and boundary; and with later additions and alterations
including those c1820. Reddish-brown brick with stucco to
front facade and green and red sandstone to basement, hipped
plain tile roof, 4 tall brick stacks, 1 to each side, 1 to
rear and 1 to extension, all with oversailing courses and
mainly with pots; sandstone and brick walls; cast-iron gate,
railings and balconettes. Double depth plan with central
hallway and stairwell behind room at left; further range at
left extending to rear; walls and railings abut at left and at
rear to left and right. The house is sited on a slope so to
front the main range has 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows with
2-storey, single bay to left and single-storey projecting
porch occupying 2 bays of main range at right; to main range
at rear are 2 storeys on basement plus attics, 4 first-floor
windows. Stucco detail includes quoins to angles of main
range; fluted keystones with cornices to windows; moulded
cornice; coped parapets. 6/6 sashes in near-flush frames
throughout, that to ground floor at left range now blocked,
those to ground and first floor of main range have thick
glazing bars, all with sills. Entrance to left return of
porch: 6-panel door, the lower 2 flush-beaded, in tooled
architrave with cornice on brackets; otherwise porch has two
2/2 sashes with fluted keystones, cornice and low coped
parapet. Left return has 6/6 sashes and 2 tripartite windows
with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. Gable-ended attic dormer with 3/3
sash.
Rear: wide eaves to main range. Mainly 6/6 sashes, 2 to ground
floor at left are 3/9 sashes; all with cambered arches over,
those to first floor show evidence of earlier, taller windows.
First-floor windows have segmental-shaped lattice balconettes;
similar latticework balcony across 2
northernmost ground-floor windows and lattice balustrade to
steps leading down to garden. 2 box attic dormers with 4/4
sashes. Basement has 2-light C14 chamfered mullion window. A
further casement window in medieval chamfered lintel.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Front garden walls and railings abut left
range and return across frontage for approximately 3 metres x
12 metres, with coped wall approximately 1.5 metres high
surmounted by spearhead railings; pier to angle, square on
plan with frieze and cornice with steps to gate with spearhead
railings. Rear boundary garden walls to north and south
approximately 40 metres in length and ramped from 2 to 4
metres in height.
INTERIOR: retains a wealth of original features. To ground
floor the entrance hall has stone flagged floor; archway
through to open newel staircase rises to full height with
closed string and pulvinated frieze surmounted by turned
rod-on-double-bobbin balusters, wide shaped handrail, large
bobbin finials and onion-pendants to newels. most original
doors survive including those with 2-flush-panels,
2-raised-and-fielded panels, 6-flush-panels; corner cupboard
to kitchen has lower doors with h-hinges and two 2-panel upper
doors with H-hinges, all with raised-and-fielded-panels to
interior; windows have panelled shutters. Room to rear has
fireplace with cast-iron Neo-classical grate. First floor:
chamfered axial and transverse beams. Rear room has
embellished plaster cornice with acanthus leaves and foliate
ceiling frieze. Regency marble fireplace. Attic has fireplace
to front room with cast-iron grate. Closed string staircase
from ground floor to basement has shaped handrail and square
newel with big bobbin finial. Basement has former entrance to
charnel chapel crypt a pointed, chamfered arch. Plank doors
with probably C17 hinges. Remains of a medieval fireplace.
Barrel-vaulted cellars with stone shelves.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Front garden walls abut left range and
return across frontage for approximately 3 metres x 12 metres,
with coped wall approximately 1.5 metres high surrounded by
spearhead railings; pier to angle, square on plan with frieze
and cornice with steps to gate with spearhead railings. Rear
boundary garden walls to north and south approximately 40
metres in length and ramped from 2 to 4 metres in height.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this is probably built on the site of house
of the chaplain to the charnel chapel (demolished during C17)
and incorporates an entrance to the charnel chapel; the
basement probably incorporates part of the medieval boundary
wall and may also straddle the boundary ditch between the
Cathedral and Bishop's Palace (The Old Palace) (qqv).
All the listed buildings in College Yard (qqv) form a good
group and form part of the setting for the Cathedral (qv).
Rear boundary garden walls extend to Diglis Parade where they
abut the west boundary wall which forms part of Cathedral
Walls
(Scheduled Ancient Monument 343A).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669177

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