Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE PIERPOINT STREET
620-1/12/477 (South side)
05/04/71 No.13

GV II

Purpose-built as City and County Library c1839, became School of
Art c1876, now offices. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof
and brick stacks: tall right end stack with oversailing course
and pots and tall rear stack. Central hallway plan with rear
range off-set to right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on half basement, 4 first-floor windows (5
bays). Moulded plinth surmounted by Doric pilasters to ends and
between bays, mutilated entablature and crowning coped parapet.
Central breakforward has 2 raised pilasters to parapet. Ground
floor has 1/1 horned sashes; first floor has 3/6 sashes, all in
plain reveals and with sills. Steps to central entrance: double
8-panel, flush-beaded doors with overlight between pilasters with
disc moulding, scrolled and fluted corbel brackets surmounted by
frieze with 3 wreaths and shallow pediment. Above entrance a
raised 'pedimented' panel on 3 feet.
INTERIOR: noted as retaining original plasterwork and joinery
including panelled shutters to windows.
Nos 4-8 (consecutive) (qqv) and Nos 11, 12, 12A and 13 Pierpoint
Street (qqv) form a group with Nos 4 and 6 Sansome Walk (qqv).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669462

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings