Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE SANSOME WALK
620-1/12/505 Judges Lodgings and
05/04/71 attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
FOREGATE STREET
(East side)
North Wing Pavilion)
(Formerly Listed as:
FOREGATE STREET
(East side)
South Wing Pavilion)
(Formerly Listed as:
FOREGATE STREET
(East side)
Judges' Lodgings at Shire
Hall)

GV II*

Judges' lodgings and attached railings, now offices. c1834-35
with later alterations. By Charles Day and Henry Rowe.
Pinkish-red brick with flat arches of red gauged brick; ashlar
porch, cornice, sills and copings; concealed roof; cast-iron
railings.
PLAN: central hallway plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 3 bays with 1:1:1 first-floor
windows. Outer bays project. Central single-story distyle Roman
Doric portico in antis surmounted by renewed balustrade. Flight
of steps to double, 4-panel doors with sidelights and divided
overlight. Tripartite windows throughout with 6/6 between 2/2
sashes, those to third storey are smaller, all in plain reveals
and with flat arches of gauged brick, those to ground and first
floors have sills. Frieze and moulded cornice over first floor
with continuous third-floor sill band over. Crowning cornice and
coped parapet. Returns are 3-windows deep with similar
fenestration.
INTERIOR: retains original joinery, plasterwork and marble
fireplaces. Hall has imperial staircase with cast-iron balusters
and wreathed handrail; oval skylight; upper landing has paired
Doric pilasters to front recess; dentil cornice and 4-panel
doors. Openwell service staircase to rear with ramped and
wreathed oak handrail and cast-iron balusters to full height.
Library has picture rails and moulded corice, marble fireplace.
ining room has marble fireplace; ceiling rose and dentil cornice.
Some shutters to ground-floor windows.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings abutt sides of steps and have
x-motif to panels with surmounting anthaemeons, otherwise
renewed.
HISTORICAL NOTE: An outstanding example of early C19 villa
architecture in severe Grecian style, designed to complement the
Shire Hall, Foregate Street, by the same architect.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth:
1968-1985: 323).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548208

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