Description

WORCESTER

SO8555NW LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
620-1/9/374 (North East side)
05/04/71 No.11

GV II

Detached house. 1840-68 with later additions and alterations.
Painted stucco over brick, hipped slate roof with wide bracketted
eaves. Pair of stucco stacks to each end with ornate dentilled
stone cornice, similar stack to left rear roof slope. 2 storeys
and cellar. 4 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes
plinth, banded rustication to ground-floor with vermiculated
quoins and keystones to ground-floor window heads; plain band
below first-floor windows which together with their sills are
housed in shallow recesses; rectangular recessed panels between
eaves brackets; inset porch to right return. First-floor windows
are 2/2 sashes; those to ground-floor are 2/4 extending down to
floor-level. The hinges for external shutters remain in the
reveals. The stucco detailing of the facade is continued on the
returns. Left-return has external, first-floor stacks on corbel
bracket to left and right, with 2 small C20 windows between;
small 1/1 sash to ground-floor. Right-return first-floor has
external stack on corbel bracket to left, 2/2 sash to centre and
right, each window in shallow recess as per facade. Centre
ground-floor is recessed open porch, semi-circular arch on pair
of detached inset columns with crown capitals, panelled and
moulded soffit; pair of replacement glazed doors with
flush-beaded lower panels; plain fanlight; polychromatic ceramic
tiled floor. To right 2/4 sash down to floor-level. Set back to
rear of right return is 2-storey wing detailed as main facade;
2/2 to first-floor and 2/4 to ground-floor. Right return of wing
has two 2/4 ground-floor windows separated by screen wall pierced
by flat arched open doorway; beyond are 5 roll-edged stone steps
to rear entrance into Lansdowne Crescent Lane, 4-panel door,
upper panels glazed, diagonal boarding to lower panels. Rear
elevation to main house has 6/6, 8/8, and 10/10 sashes;
flush-beaded, 4-panel door with plain fanlight. ear of wing is
red-brick with stucco eaves brackets; 2/2 and 1/1 sashes under
flat gauged brick arches.
INTERIOR: retains some original features including panelled doors
and shutters, architraves and skirtings, plaster cornices.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the wing to the rear right return is shown on
the 1886 O.S. ap. Of similar design to No.12 Lansdowne Crescent.
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 elevation. 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 Q26669358

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)