Description

WORCESTER

SO8555NE LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
620-1/10/368 (North East side)
05/04/71 Nos.1 AND 2
and attached wall
(Formerly Listed as:
LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
No.1)
Formerly Listed as:
LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
No.2)

GV II

Semi-detached houses. c1835-40 with later additions and
alterations. Painted stucco over brick, hipped slate roof, 3
ridge stacks, 1 at party-wall, 1 to right, 1 to rear wing, all in
stucco with oversailing detail and pots. Cast-iron steps and
balustrade accessing stucco and timber bay window and similar
steps to French window, both of right-hand house. Timber external
blind-boxes and architraves. T-shaped plan with side entrances in
rear wing. Originally symmetrical principal elevation, additional
narrow bay added to right-end together with infill to rear (1886
O.S. map shows extensions). 2 storeys with basement and cellar, 4
(2:2:0) first-floor windows. Stucco lined to represent ashlar,
detailing includes simple plinth, pilaster strips to ends and
between windows. First-floor windows are 8/8 sashes in plain
reveals with sills; external ornamented blind-boxes and narrow
architraves. Ground-floor left is French window, each leaf of
8-panes with 4-pane overlight; to right is 8/8 sash; C20 window
to basement. Right-house has canted bay to left with moulded
frieze and dentilled cornice; French window with 2-pane
overlight; unequal 2/1 sashes to returns; small, stone-flagged
terrace accessed from right via 3 decorative pierced steps;
ornamental balustrade with moulded wooden handrail; to
right-return of bay is small semi-circular window opening to
cellar. To right of bay is 1/1 sash with horns; to far right is
French window with 2-light overlight; roll-edged stone sill; 3
decorative pierced steps similar to those to the bay. All the
ground-floor windows have external-blind boxes as per
first-floor. Left return in stucco, 2 small C20 windows. Rear of
No.2 is painted brick with 6/6 sashes and replacement 6-panel
door, fanlight and pedimented doorcase; service range also
painted brick with 8/8 sashes, C20 door.
Right-return is painted stucco and brick; stucco piers with
moulded stone caps flank 1 stone and 8 slate steps to 5-panel
door, centre and upper pair of panels raised and fielded with
bolection moulding, bottom pair flush-double-beaded with
decoration; segmental pattern fanlight; moulded architrave; 1/1,
6/6, and 8/8 sashes. 2-storey brick and slate service-range to
rear has 2 unequal 2 barred sashes to first-floor; pair of
vertically boarded doors under segmental arch to ground-floor.
Service range linked to main house by brick boundary wall,
approx. 6m. long by 2,5m. high, curving in plan and with
curvilinear brick coping; wall pierced by pedestrian
vertically-boarded door under segmental arch.
INTERIOR: of No.1 contains original features including panelled
doors, fluted architraves with paterae, skirtings, dado and
picture rails, plaster cornices and ceiling centres, dogleg
staircase with square balusters.
HISTORIC NOTE: because of their elevated position, vehicular
access to these houses could only be from the east via Lansdowne
Crescent Lane; this introduced a degree of formality to what
would normally be the rear elevations. The 1886 O.S. Map shows
Nos. 10 and 14 qqv) as exceptions with carriage drives from the
west off Lansdowne Crescent. Nos. 1-15 (consecutive) and 17 and
18 Lansdowne Crescent (qqv) form a good group of listed buildings
comparing well with other developments of this period in
Worcester such as Britannia Square, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill
Terrace (qqv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 38, 335; JM Knowles: Lansdowne Crescent
Worcester to 1900: Worcester: 1988-).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669352

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Recommended Books

• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)