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SO8554SW
620-1/20/306

WORCESTER
GREEN HILL, LONDON ROAD (west side)
Nos.6-10 (Consecutive) and attached railings to Nos 6, 7, 8 and 9

(Formerly Listed as: GREEN HILL, LONDON ROAD Nos.6-10)

22/05/54

GV
II
Terrace of five houses and attached railings to four houses at right. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1828-30 with later additions and alterations. Stucco over brick, scored in imitation of ashlar; slate roofs and stuccoed party-wall and right end stacks with purple brick oversailing courses and pots; cast-iron railings and verandahs which have lead roofs. Three storeys on basements, ten first floor windows (two per house) with further two lower storey, one window entrance bay to left house. First floor: multi-pane fixed-light window in cambered-arched surround; two six/six sashes; eight/eight sash; two six/six sashes; eight/eight sash; four six/six sashes. Second floor has three/three and four/four sashes where original. Basement has casement windows. All in plain reveals and with sills. Entrances: those to four left houses are paired and between them a round-arched access opening, otherwise entrance to left. Two steps to left, otherwise flights of four steps. Original doors except that to left house, have five panels with lower flush-beaded panels and upper glazed panes and with overlights with margin-lights; all in tooled architraves.The paired entrances have shared verandahs with cylindrical posts and embellished friezes. Rears retain six/six and eight/eight sashes.

INTERIORS: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps have rods, those to landings embellished are embellished with pairs of scrolls.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Green Hill was developed c1828. Nos 2-10 (consecutive) and Nos 12, 14, 15 and 16 form a good group of early C19 houses.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669289

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)