Description

WORCESTER

SO8555SW SANSOME PLACE
620-1/13/491 (East side)
08/03/74 Nos.3, 4 AND 5

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses, now offices. c1760's with later alterations.
Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with stucco to ground floor,
stone doorcases, cornice and keystones; concealed roof,
pinkish-red brick truncated party-wall stack. Double depth plan
with staircase between front and rear rooms. 3 storeys, 6
first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes horizontal
rustication to ground floor. First and second floors have 6/6
sashes, all with flat arches of gauged brick and keystones with
incised decoration; all in plain reveals. Continuous first-floor
sill band, second-floor windows have sills. Crowning frieze and
moulded cornice with low, coped parapet. Ground floor has 8/8
sashes. Entrance to right: 6-panel doors, the lower panels
lush-beaded, otherwise raised and fielded, all with overlights
with margin-lights and in panelled reveals; doorcases have fluted
Doric columns with frieze with triglyphs and metopes, cornice.
INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork including
panelled shutters to some windows, moulded cornices including
modillion cornices to hall; staircases have narrow openwell with
stick balusters and wreathed handrails where original.
HISTORICAL NOTE: shown on Young's Map of 1779.
Forms a good group with Nos 1 and 2, No.6 and Nos 7-11
(consecutive) Sansome Place (qqv).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669549

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