Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE SANSOME WALK
620-1/12/501 (West side)
22/05/54 No.15
(Formerly Listed as:
SANSOME WALK
(West side)
No.15)

GV II

Includes: Oak Apple Kitchens TAYLOR'S LANE.
House, now house and shops. Early C18 with later additions and
alterations including those of C19 and including re-roofing of
c1876-1935. Red brick with tile roof and tall right side stack
with decorative oversailing courses and pots; cast-iron balcony.
Double-depth plan with range to rear at right extending along
Taylor's Lane.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic, 5 first-floor windows. 3-course
first-floor band and 3-course band over first floor; stepped
modillion eaves band. First floor has four outer 6/6
near-flush-frame sashes with flat arches of gauged brick and
central near-flush French casement with similar flat arch, on to
balcony with stylized foliate balusters which surmounts hood of
entrance. Central entrance a renewed 6-panel door with divided
overlight; ground-floor windows have C20 glazing in wide,
cambered-arched surrounds. Central full attic dormer has casement
window. Roof tiles are laid in rows of half-round and plain.
Right return has 6 first-floor windows. First floor has, from
left: rectangular oriel with casements, tripartite window with /6
between 2/2 sash in near-flush frame and with cambered arch over,
then sashes with margin-lights in plain reveals and wiht
elliptical arches. Ground floor has 2 elliptically-arched
openings with keystones, and 3 further elliptically-arched
openings, all now with plate glass windows. Off-centre right and
right end entrances have 6-panel doors. Cogged eaves. 3 attic
dormers have casement windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having panelled room to left
of entrance.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 332).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669558

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)