Description

WORCESTER

SO8454NE DEANSWAY
620-1/16/362 (North East side)
05/04/71 No.5
and attached boundary
wall
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(West side)
No.105)
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(West side)
No.105A)

II

House, believed to have been a rectory, now offices. Late C18
with later additions and alterations. Red brick under 2-span
slate roof with curvilinear parapets to gables. Paired end
stacks incorporated in parapets have oversailing details and
pots. Painted stone detailing. Cast-iron balconies.
Double-front, double-depth plan with central hall and
staircase towards rear. Service ranges to rear, incorporating
Nos. 105 and 105A High Street.
Largely symmetrical elevation. Three storeys plus basement.
Five first-floor windows. Stone detailing includes sills, door
case, dentilled eaves cornice. 6/6 sashes to ground- and
first-floor, pair to left ground-floor extend down to ground
level, pair above are similar with balconies in scroll and
anthemion design; side-hung casements to second-floor; all in
plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches. 2 stone
steps to part-glazed door. Doorcase has columns with foliate
capitals and fluted rieze with roundels, dentilled cornice;
ornate radial pattern leaded fan-light. Decorative louvred
shutters to ground-floor windows. 2 storey range to right
breaks forward, has curved end to Deansway with curved 3/6
sash to first-floor, further 8/8 sashes, all in plain reveals
with sills and flat gauged brick arches. 3-panel door, top and
centre raised and fielded, bottom panel flush-beaded.
INTERIOR: retains some original details including panelled
doors, staircase with square balusters and wreathed handrail,
decorative plasterwork.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Approx. 2,3m. high by approx. 30m. long
brick wall running from two storey range in a NW direction
forming the boundary to Deansway.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The 1928 O.S. map indicates 5 Deansway as a
Rectory, however the 1886 O.S. map appears to indicate that
College Gates (qv) (106 High Street/2 Deansway) was St.
Andrews Rectory.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669187

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