Description

WORCESTER

SO8555NW LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
620-1/9/369 (North East side)
05/04/71 Nos.3 AND 4 (Consecutive)
Formerly Listed as:
LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
No.3)
Formerly Listed as:
LANSDOWNE CRESCENT
No.4)

GV II

2 semi-detached houses, numbered right to left, described left to
right. c1835-40 with later additions and alterations. Painted
stucco over brick with hipped slate roof. 3 painted brick stacks,
to left return and to front and rear roof slopes at party wall,
all with oversailing detail and pots. Timber bay window with flat
lead roof; timber balcony and pergola to left house. Timber porch
to right house. Double-depth plan with entrances in left and
right returns and to rear. Originally symmetrical elevation,
additional range added to left. 2 storeys with basement and
attic, 5 first-floor windows (1:2:2). Stucco lined to represent
ashlar, detailing includes plain eaves band to all elevations.
First-floor windows are 8/8 with external blind-boxes except that
to left; all have sills. Late C20 replacement canted bay to left
ground-floor has moulded cornice and bracketted eaves, multi-pane
glazing with transom lights. To centre and right of No.4 is a C20
replacement French window, each leaf of 2-panes; overlight and
external blind-box; ground level below these windows has been
reduced to form a semi-basement with inserted French windows,
each leaf of 2-panes; late C20 balcony and pergola. To left is
single-storey basement extension with C20 window and door and
whose parapeted flat roof serves as a terrace to the bay window
above. Ground-floor windows to No.3 are 8/8 sashes with external
blind-boxes as per first-floor; 4/8 sashes to basement.
Left-return is painted brick, central 5-panel, part-glazed door.
6/6 near-flush sash under segmental arch to first-floor;
semi-circular lead-roofed dormer to hip-end with 4-pane window.
Rear elevation to No.4 is red brick with 4/4 and 8/8 sashes in
near-flush frames, under segmental rubbed brick arches and with
stone sills; replacement 3-panel door with overlight.
Right-return is painted stucco. Set back towards the rear is a
narrow 2-storey extension with flat lead roof. Steps to
west-facing entrance; 6-panel door, upper panels glazed,
bottom pair flush-beaded; fanlight based on circle-and-teardrop
design; moulded architrave, reveals and soffit have raised
beading panel design; Tuscan-style porch (canopy substantially
rebuilt c1993 following dry-rot outbreak), single fluted-column
rising from low flank wall to steps. Reinstated 8/8 sash to
first-floor. South face of extension has paired 1/1 sashes in
plain reveals with sills to ground- and first-floors. Reinstated
8/8 sash to first-floor. Similar dormer to hip-end but with 3/6
sash. Rear of No.3 is painted brick, near-flush 8/8 sashes to
first-floor under segmental arches and with sills. Square bay to
left ground-floor, moulded and bracketted cornice, 2 mullions,
transom lights. C20 single-storey flat roof porch to right with
window and part-glazed door.
INTERIOR: No.3 retains some original features including panelled
doors, shutters, skirtings, architraves, plaster cornices;
staircase has stick balusters and wreathed handrail. Altered
2-storey brick and slate coach house forms part of north and east
boundaries (No.4).
HISTORICAL NOTE: the additional range to the left, including a
canted bay to the facade, and the extension to the right return
is shown on the 1886 O.S. Map. Because of their elevated
position, vehicular access to these houses could only be from the
east via Lansdowne Crescent Lane; this introduced a degree of
formality to what would normally be the rear elevations. The 1886
O.S. ap shows Nos 10 and 14 (qqv) as exceptions with carriage
drives from the west off Lansdowne Crescent. Nos. 1-15
(consecutive) and 17 and 18 Lansdowne Crescent (qqv) form a good
group of listed buildings comparing well with other developments
of this period in Worcester such as Britannia Square, Lark Hill,
and Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth:
1968-1985: 38, 335; JM Knowles: Lansdowne Crescent Worcester to
1900: Worcester: 1988-).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669353

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