Description

WORCESTER

SO8554SE VICTORIA PLACE, LONDON ROAD
620-1/21/660 (West side)
20/11/75 Nos.7-12 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
VICTORIA PLACE, LONDON ROAD
Nos.1 TO 6, 6A AND 7, 12)
(Formerly Listed as:
VICTORIA PLACE, LONDON ROAD
Nos.1-6, 6A (Consecutive))

II

Terrace of 6 houses. c1780-1820 with later additions and
alterations. Red-orange brick, stone sills. Slate roof, plain
eaves band to left pair, dentilled eaves to asymmetric roof of
4 houses to right. Nos 7 and 8 have gable-end stacks to front
and rear roof slopes, Nos 9 to 12 have 2 party-wall ridge
stacks; all with oversailing detail and pots.
PLAN: 2 houses to left are deeper and project forward beyond
the rest of the terrace, each house is one room wide, all
double-depth.
East Elevation: Left-hand pair (7 and 8) are 3 storeys. 2
first-floor windows; 6/6 except second-floor which are 3/3,
all in near-flush frames with sills; segmental arches over
ground- and first-floor. Stone steps to adjacent renewed
raised and fielded 6-panel doors; plain fanlight under
semi-circular brick arch.
Right of terrace (9 to 12) is 2-storey. 4 (2:2:2:2)
first-floor windows, paired 3-pane side-hung casements in
plain reveals with brick sills. Ground-floor windows are 6/6
sashes in near-flush-frames; segmental arches and brick sills.
Brick steps to replacement raised and fielded 6-panel doors.
Single-storey brick-and-slate bin-stores are last quarter of
C20.
Left-return is renewed brickwork (terrace originally extended
further South); right-return is stucco. West elevation:
Left-hand houses 12 to 9) are 3-storey. 5 first-floor windows,
8/8 in near-flush-frames; sills and segmental arches; centre
window is blind. Four windows to ground-floor are similar 8/8.
Second-floor are 4/4 except blind-window to centre. Renewed
6-panel doors to left, centre (2 adjacent) and right;
segmental arches over. Elevation of right-pair of houses (8
and 7) identical to east facade.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Similar design to Nos 13-19 Victoria Place (qv).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669652

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6