Description

WORCESTER

SO8554SW CASTLE PLACE
620-1/20/147 Nos.5 AND 6
02/11/99

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses, now school offices. c1800.
Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with dark red window
arches; stone sills and cornice; slate roof and central brick
stack with oversailing course and pots. Built as single
design. 3 storeys, 2 first-floor windows with single-storey
outshuts to rear. Plinth. Ground and first floors have 8/8
sashes; second floor has 4/4 sashes; all in plain reveals and
with flat arches of gauged brick and sills. Entrances to
returns (alike): 6-panel doors, the upper panels raised and
fielded, the lower panels flush beaded; 3-pane overlights.
Returns have 6/6 sash to first floor and casement windows in
gable. Outshuts have 8/8 sashes.
INTERIORS: moulded cornicing and original joinery, including
panelled doors in moulded architraves; open-well staircase
with stick balusters, fret-cut brackets and swept newel.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317075

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living