Description

WORCESTER

SO85SE BATTLE ROAD
620-1/4/684 (South East side)
01/02/99 Gatehouse to St Mary's
Convent School and attached
wall to north
(Formerly Listed as:
BATTLE ROAD
Gatehouse to St Mary's
Convent School)

GV II

Gatehouse with gates, piers and attached walls. Dated 1893 on
stack. For Alfred Percy Allsopp, by architect John Henry Williams
of Foregate Street, Worcester; builders Joseph Woods and Sons,
The Butts, Worcester. Gault brick with glazed tiles; pseudo
timber-framing to first-floor and fish-scale, plain tile roof;
tall brick ridge, rear and roof stacks with cornices and
oversailing courses, resembling clusters. Brick and tile walls.
Cast-iron gates. Tudor Revival style.
PLAN: irregular composition in L-plan, with single-storey and
attic range to left; wide single-bay gateway with gabled storey
over; tall 2-storey on basement, single-bay range with jettied
gable over and 3-storey tower. Off-centre left gateway has
elliptical arch with ovolo-moulded surround and hoodmould.
Otherwise entrance to right at base of tower, a plank door.
Ground-floor has 5-light mullion window to left range and
4-light, mullion and tramsom window to right. Upper stage: attic
roof dormer at left with decorative bargeboards; 4-light
wooden-mullion window in gable over archway; and oriel window to
first-floor of right range; all with multi-pane lights. Tower has
2-light mullion and transom window to first-floor and crowning
octagonal turret with cusped lights, ogee dome. To right return a
2-storey range breaks forward and has mullion windows to
ground-floor and multi-pane casements to first-floor. Rear is
jettied to first-floor and has jettied gables over. Multi-pane
transomed windows to ground-floor and 3- and 4-light, multi-pane
windows on corbelled sills to first-floor. 4-light window over
gateway. Carved bargeboards. Double carriage gates have ornate
scrolled motifs. Embattled walls approximately one metre high.
Quadrant wall to left of carriage arch approximately 5 metres
long has octagonal pier to each end, that to right abuts
pedestrian gateway with low piers, square on plan and with ogee
caps; further stretch of embattled wall rising to two metres in
height, for approximately 6 metres. Battlements embellished with
scrolled vine motif.
An impressive example of a Domestic Revival gatehouse, forms a
group with St. Mary's Convent School, and St. Mary's Convent
Junior School and Kindergarten, Battenhall Avenue (qqv). (Leach,
Annette: The House that William Built - the history of Battenhall
Mount: Birmingham University: 1993-).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317203

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)