Description

WORCESTER

SO8555SW SANSOME WALK
620-1/13/500 (East side)
22/05/54 Nos.4 AND 6
Sansome Lodge (No.4) and
Sansome House (No.6)
(Formerly Listed as:
SANSOME WALK
(East side)
Nos.4 AND 6)

GV II

House, now offices. Numbered right to left, described left to
right. Mid C18 for CT Withers, with later additions and
alterations including wing to rear at left of Mid C19.
Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with plain tile hipped roof,
brick stack to off-centre left and to left return with
oversailing course and pots, renewed stack at right.
PLAN: probably originally L-plan, now U-plan; originally with
central entrance.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 2:3:2 first-floor windows.
Central pedimented breakforward. First floor has 6/6
cambered-headed sashes; ground floor has 6/6, two 10/10 and two
6/6 cambered-headed sashes; all in plain reveals and with sills
and cambered arches of gauged brick. Moulded timber cornice,
renewed. Pediment has lunette with gothic glazing bars. 2 box
dormers with 3/3 cambered-headed sashes. Entrances to centre and
off-centre left, alike: 6-raised-and-fielded-panel doors, the
upper lights glazed, in tooled architraves, pilastered surrounds
with fluted console brackets surmounted by frieze and segmental
pediments.
Right return (originally garden facade): 2:3:2 first-floor
windows. Central breakforward. Mainly 6/6 cambered-headed sashes
where original, in plain reveals and with sills and cambered
arches of gauged brick; bow window to ground floor has two 10/10
sashes, curved on plan. Further entrance a part-glazed door in
surround with Doric pilasters, frieze and cornice. 2 box dormers
as front facade.
Left return: similar 6/6 cambered-beaded sashes and extension
with 6/6 staircase sash with radial glazing bars to head. Attic
with 12/12 sash.
INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork. To left part
a closed string, open newel staircase with shaped and ramped
handrail and elongated-onion balusters, square newel posts;
panelled dado. Ovolo-moulded cornice to hall. 6-flush-panel
doors. Marble fireplace to front room at right.
HISTORICAL NOTE: originally Sansome House, a seat of the Withers
family, set in large grounds. Shown on George Young's Map of
1779.
Nos 4 and 6 Sansome Walk form a group with Nos 4-8 (consecutive)
and Nos 11, 12, 12A and 13 Pierpoint Street (qqv).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669557

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)