Description

WORCESTER

SO8554SE ROSE HILL
620-1/21/488 (West side)
15/05/79 Rose Hill House
II

Large villa in spacious grounds, now St Richard's Hospice.
c1810 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco
with hipped slate roof, wide overhanging bracketted eaves.
Stucco ridge stacks with brick oversailing detail and some
pots.
PLAN: double-depth with central through-hall with staircase.
Wing in similar style to right, further lower wing and service
ranges to left (west).
EXTERIOR: south (garden/London Road) elevation: Symmetrically
composed main block with asymmetric flanking ranges. 2 storeys
with attic and basement. 8 (4:3:1) first-floor windows. Stucco
detailing includes plinth and first-floor sill band.
Fenestration to main block is 8/8 to first-floor and 8/12 to
ground-floor, all in plain reveals; plinth doubles as
ground-floor sill band. Central through-storey semi-circular
headed stair light is 9/9; below are paired 2-panel doors, top
panels glazed; late C20 flat roofed conservatory over
entrance.
Wing to left has 3/3, 6/6 and 8/8 sashes; canted oriel window
to first-floor (1/1:1/1:1/1).
Wing to right has 1/1 first-floor sash; below is French window
with overlight.
North(principal/carriage drive) elevation: some degree of
symmetry to main block, asymmetric flanking ranges. 2 storeys
with attic and basement. Stucco detailing as per south
elevation. Fenestration to main block is all 6/6 sashes in
plain reveals. Central 4-panel door with overlight; flanking
bow windows, that to left smaller than on right; each with 3
windows. Late C20 Tuscan-style porch. Left wing has 1/1
sashes; wings to right have 4/4 and 6/6 sashes. Post 1886
canted bay 1/1:1/1(tripartite):1/1 with roofed balcony over to
east return.
INTERIOR: retains many original features including open-well
staircase with scrolled wrought-iron balusters, wreathed
handrail; polychromatic ceramic tiled floor to hall; panelled
internal shutters and doors, architraves, skirtings, dado and
picture rails; moulded plaster cornices.
HISTORICAL NOTE: although now known as Rose Hill House,
reference to the First Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1886
shows this building without a name; the adjacent property
(demolished c1965)
to the south and east is identified as being Rose Hill House.
This changes on the 1940 revision of the 1928 O.S. map when
the subject of this description becomes identified as 'Rose
Hill'. The 1886 map shows what is currently Rose Hill House
with a plan very similar to what exists now.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669496

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Care and Repair
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)