Description

PARK CRESCENT
1.
5406
Nos 1 to 14 (consec)
TQ 1402 NW 1/26 11.10.49.
II* GV
2.
1829-1830. Amon Henry Wilds Architect. 3 storeys. 3 windows each. Stuccoed.
The houses are built in 3s. Each centre house projects with pilasters from ground
to 1st floor having Corinthian capitals with honeysuckle leaves in the centre of
them, entablature above with garland ornamentation to the frieze, then 2nd storey
with small plain pilasters, round-headed windows and pediment above. The outer houses
have only a stringcourse above the ground floor, cornice above 1st floor with garland
ornamentation in frieze and a castellation effect to form a sort of balustrade in
front of 2nd floor windows. The outside window of these outer houses is set back
and on the ground floor there are pairs of porches with caryatid columns and balcony
above. Some of these balconies have been glazed. Some of the houses have had iron
balconies added. Windows in frames, the ground floor ones with entablatures over,
those in the central houses with semi-circular panels over them. Some glazing bars
missing. Rectangular fanlights to all doors.

Nos 1 to 14 (consec) and the gateway and lodges form a group with Beechwood Hall.

Listing NGR: TQ1430102892

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Park Crescent, Worthing at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7137709

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey