Description

WORCESTER

SO8555NE RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
620-1/10/484 (North side)
05/04/71 Nos.8, 9 AND 9A
(Formerly Listed as:
RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
Nos.8 AND 9)

GV II

Pair of houses forming part of terrace. c1830-50 with later
additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick; roof
concealed by coped parapet; paired end stacks rising from
curvilinear parapet have oversailing detail and pots. Wooden
porch to left house. Wrought-iron railings to entrance steps
and first-floor balconettes.
PLAN: double-depth with adjacent entrance halls.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 4 first-floor windows. Stucco
incised to represent ashlar, detailing includes arch-headed
recesses for first-floor windows with mask crowning ribbed
pendant shell ornamental tympana; sill band and band linking
heads of these windows; further plain band at eaves level.
First-floor sashes are tall 6/9 with bowed lattice
balconettes, second-floor are 6/6. The left-hand ground-floor
window is 14/8, with a semi-circular arched head and
intersecting Gothic tracery glazing bars to the upper sash.
The right-hand ground-floor window is 6/6. A flight of 6 steps
leads up from the left and right to access each house; slender
round balusters to left-hand railings, those to right are
replacement. Left door is 5-panel, glazed upper panels,
bolection moulded centre panel, the bottom pair of panels are
flush double-beaded with stepped corners; fanlight with
'umbrella' glazing pattern; Tuscan-style porch with mutules.
Right door is 5-panel, the upper panels are raised and fielded
with bolection mouldings, the bottom pair are flush-beaded;
3-pane overlight.
To the right-return, very slightly recessed is a 2-storey wing
(a separate dwelling as rom c1974), the roof is concealed by a
parapet which rises at the centre to carry a fluted urn; the
stucco bands from the main elevation run through. The single
first-floor window is 13/8 with semi-circular arched head in
similar style to that in the left-hand house, two 4/4 sashes
on the ground-floor; all in plain reveals with sills. To the
left is a semi-circular headed recess with plain tympanum and
5-panel door, the upper pair and centre panel raised and
fielded with bolection mouldings, the bottom pair
flush-beaded; 4-steps to entrance.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Nos 1-10 (consecutive) Rainbow Hill Terrace
(qqv) form a good group of listed buildings comparing well
with other developments of this period in Worcester such as
Britannia Square, Lansdowne Crescent, and Lark Hill (qqv).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669469

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)