Description

WORCESTER

SO8554SE FORT ROYAL LANE
620-1/21/277 No.10
15/05/79 Park House and attached
railings

II

Detached villa with attached railings to steps. c1828 with
later additions and alterations; said to have been built for
Humphrey Chamberlain (of Chamberlain's Porcelain Manufactory,
Worcester). Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof,
boxed eaves. Central stucco stack with oversailing detail and
pots. Wrought-iron handrail to entrance steps. Cast-iron
column and timber shutters to porch. Timber doorcase.
Double-depth plan. Access in right return to stairhall. South
Elevation: Unusually tall proportions, 3 storeys and
semi-basement. 2 first-floor windows. Stucco lined to
represent ashlar, detailing includes plinth; giant pilasters
flanking each window, frieze to capitals decorated with
anthemia; plain eaves band below moulded cornice; fluted fan
and acanthus leaf decoration to tympana above ground- and
first-floor windows. Windows to semi-basement are 4/4 sashes,
to elevated ground-floor 1/1, to first-floor 6/6, to
second-floor 3/3; all in plain reveals with sills; ground and
first-floor have round arched heads, second-floor have
cambered heads; external blind boxes to ground-floor. Left
return: 2 first-floor windows. Stucco plinth and eaves detail
continued from south elevation. 3/3 sash to second-floor,
otherwise 6/6. External blind-boxes to ground and
first-floors. Right-return: 1 first-floor window. Stucco
plinth and eaves detail continued from south elevation. 3/3
sash to second-floor, otherwise 6/6. Pointed arch opening to
lower left is glazed door to semi-basement. 2-storey outshut
to right of elevation forms partially open porch enclosing
wall to right and column to left front, space to right of
column infilled with hinged panelled shutters; porch accessed
from left by a flight of 9 stone steps, wreathed handrail with
slender round balusters. 6-panel entrance door, bottom pair of
panels triple-beaded, otherwise raised and fielded; fluted
architrave, panelled reveals; plain fanlight.
INTERIOR: Retains original features including open-well
staircase with wreathed handrail and square balusters;
panelled doors and shutters; architraves with paterae to doors
and windows; decorative plaster cornices; marble fireplace
with cast-iron grate.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669258

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)