Description

WORCESTER

SO85SE LARK HILL
620-1/4/381 Nos.38 AND 40
22/05/54 with attached boundary
walls, piers, gates and
railings to No.38
Formerly Listed as:
LARKHILL ROAD
No.38)
Formerly Listed as:
LARKHILL ROAD
No.40)

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas with attached boundary wall, piers
and railings to north. c1819-24 with later additions and
alterations including c1836-99 range at rear and boundary walls.
Stucco over brick with concealed roof, party-wall stuccoed stacks
with renewed oversailing course and with stacks; timber verandah
with slate roof; red brick walls with painted ashlar piers and
cast-iron railings and gates. Each house originally L-plan with
service ranges to rear, now partly infilled. Symmetrical
Classical design with main facade to garden: 3 storeys, 4
first-floor windows. Central 2-window breakforward has end Doric
pilasters to full height, central full-height, round-arched
recess. Continuous frieze, cornice and blocking course. First
floor has 6/6 sashes where original, otherwise 1/1 horned sashes.
Second floor has 3/3 sashes where original. Ground floor has tall
6/6 sashes where original and verandah at left. Left return has
full-height bow window with 6/6 and 3/3 sashes, curved on
section. Entrance to No.38 to north (left) return: flight of
steps to part-glazed door with lower fielded panel, fanlight with
'v'-glazing bars, in tooled timber doorcase with roundels.
Entrance to No.40 now at rear (east): part-glazed door in fluted
timber doorcase with cornice. Rear retains 6/6 and 8/8 ashes
where original.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: north boundary wall, coped, has pilaster
buttresses and modillion frieze; 2 piers, square on plan, with
panelled shafts and peaked cap. Wall approximately 50 metres long
and 2 metres high. Railings surmounting low coped wall continue o
west boundary have bars and standards with ornate finials,
renewed gate.
HISTORIC NOTE: the Lark Hill development, c1819-24, was intended
to be much larger and to include terraces and a crescent.
Nos 38 to 50 (even) and Woodside, Lark Hill Road (qqv) form a
group. No.38 was formerly listed as No.1 and No.40 was formerly
listed as No.2 Larkhill Road.
(Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead
D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian
Worcs: 1989-: 41).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669366

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