Description

WORCESTER

SO8555NW LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
620-1/9/376 (North East side)
05/04/71 No.14

GV II

Detached house. 1840-45 with later additions and alterations.
Painted stucco over brick with parapeted slate roof. Curvilinear
gable parapets have integral stucco stacks with oversailing
detail and some pots. Tented lead roof to verandah with
wrought-iron supports and balcony balustrade. Double-depth plan
with side entrance. 2 storeys and cellar. 3 first-floor windows.
Stucco lined to represent ashlar, detailing includes simple
plinth, end pilasters linked by plain frieze, moulded cornice,
blocking course; bay window; porch to right return. Centre
first-floor is glazed door to full-width balcony, 9-panes over 2
flush-beaded panels, 3-pane overlight; flanked by 8/8 sashes in
plain reveals with sills. Centre ground-floor has similar glazed
door with small opening section to 3-pane overlight; 2-roll edged
steps; 8/8 sash to left; later 5-sided bay to right, French
window with 2-panes to each leaf, overlight; 2-pane casements,
some side-hung, to splay and returns; transom lights; all margin
glazed. Full-width verandah on scrolled support frames with
spandrel brackets; boarded ends. Verandah forms part of balcony
which has a delicate scrolled balustrade. Left-return is blank
unpainted render. Right-return has 6/6 sash to first-floor over
Tuscan-style porch, 6-panel door, upper panels raised and fielded
with bolection moulding, lower pair flush-beaded; margin glazed
overlight; stone-flagged threshold. 2-pane margin-glazed
side-hung casement to left of porch, 1/1 sash to right. Return
continues as 2-storey rear outshut with 6/6 sash to ground and
first-floors. Fenestration to rear elevation is mainly 6/6.
2-storey wing to rear north is painted brick with C20 windows and
door.
INTERIOR: retains original features including panelled shutters
and doors, the latter with panelled reveals, architraves,
skirtings, plaster cornices and ceiling centres, marble
fireplaces, polychromatic ceramic floor tiles to hall; staircase
has square balusters and wreathed handrail. Separate 2-storey
table block to rear south is painted brick and slate.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Neither bay window nor verandah shown on 1886
O.S. Map.
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 No.10 and this house
(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 the City
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 Q26669360

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)