Description

WORCESTER

SO85SE LARK HILL
620-1/4/384 Nos.48 AND 50
22/05/54 Formerly Listed as:
LARKHILL ROAD
No.48)
Formerly Listed as:
LARKHILL ROAD
No.50)

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas. c1819-24 with later additions and
alterations. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and
stuccoed party-wall stacks. Symmetrical, Classical design; main
facade to garden (west) facade. 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows,
with side ranges set back each with 1 first-floor window and rear
service ranges, now garage and annexe. Stucco detailing includes
horizontal rustication to ground floor drawn into voussoirs over
wide, segmental-arched window recesses; cyma-moulded cornice over
ground floor surmounted by Doric pilasters to ends and pairs of
Doric pilasters between windows; entablature and blocking course.
First floor has 6/6 sashes with blind boxes; second floor has 3/3
sashes; ground floor has 6/6 sashes; all in plain reveals. To
right a timber verandah. Ranges set back to sides have similar
fenestration. Renewed entrances to rear. To right return a
2-storey bow window with tripartite 6/6 between 2/2 sashes,
curved on section.
INTERIOR: No.48 has original plasterwork and joinery including
dogleg staircase with carved tread ends, stick balusters and
wreathed handrail; panelled shutters to some windows; acanthus
frieze to ground-floor cornices; some Victorian fireplaces.
HISTORIC NOTE: the Lark Hill development, 1819-24, was originally
intended to have been more extensive with terraces and a
crescent. Nos 38-50 (even) and Woodside, Lark Hill Road (qqv)
form a good group of Victorian villas. No.48 was formerly listed
as No.6 and No.50 was formerly listed as No.7 Lark Hill Road.
(Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead
D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian
Worcs: 1989-: 44).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669369

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