Description

WORCESTER

SO8555NW LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
620-1/9/378 (North East side)
19/08/99 No.16

GV II

Detached house, built as Rectory for St. Nicholas's, The Cross
(qv). 1860-65 with later additions and alterations. Architect,
William Jeffery Hopkins; builder, Joseph Woods. Red brick with
polychromatic stone dressings, plain clay tile roof, stacks with
ornate corbelled caps and pots. 2 storeys with basement and
attic, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes steps to
entrance, capping course to plinth, buttress copings, window
surrounds, and relieving arches, string course and dentilled
eaves to entrance bay. Double-depth, double-fronted plan with
central entrance hall; service range to left (east). Principal
(entrance) elevation to north onto Lansdowne Crescent. Asymmetric
composition of three bays in Domestic Gothic Revival style;
central narrow entrance bay breaks forward slightly and is
crowned by a steep pyramidal roof; bay to right also breaks
forward slightly with gabled roof over; left of elevation
terminated by tall buttressed stack. Three first-floor mullioned
windows each of differing design but all with cusps to upper part
of surrounds; 1/1 sashes; left window of 2-lights with chamfered
heads which break eaves line, raised portion of roof over; centre
window of 3 trefoil-headed lights; right-hand window of 2 lights
with square heads. 11 steps to entrance, pierced partial infill
to intrados of pointed arch over, recessed pair of doors, glazed
upper portion with single horizontal glazing bar, solid panel
below, stopped chamfers to framing, paired overlights. 3-light
mullioned window to immediate left of entrance with further
small, trefoil-headed, single-light window beyond; to right of
entrance, canted oriel window with 4/4 between 2/2 sashes, and
hipped roof. Blocked basement opening to eft of entrance.
INTERIOR: retains joinery details including 4-panel doors with
stopped chamfers to framing, architraves, skirtings and
staircase; some fireplaces.
HISTORICAL NOTE: A good example of a Gothic Revival house of the
1860s, externally well handled and contrasting in its use of
materials to the stuccoed earlier C19 houses of Lansdowne
Crescent.
(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 Q26669362

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