25, St Johns

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WORCESTER ST JOHNS (South East side) No.25

(Formerly listed as 25, ST JOHN'S)

05/04/71

GV II House, now part dental surgery in rear range. 1750-70 with later additions and alterations. Red brick with stone dressings, plain clay tile hipped roof, dentilled eaves. End stacks with oversailing detail. Timber doorcase. Single-depth plan with central hall and staircase. Service range set back to right-return, at obtuse angle dictated by plot shape. Symmetrical facade. 2 storeys with cellar and attics. 5 first-floor windows. Stone details include channelled, engraved and capped keystones to window heads. Centre first-floor window is 12/6 sash with semi-circular arched head, top sash has traceried glazing bars in gothic-style, floral motif carving to arch keystone with egg and dart moulding to cap; other windows are 6/6 under flat gauged brick arches; all sashes in near-flush-frames with timber sills. 2 cellar windows to left under segmental arched heads. 2 stone steps to 6-panel door, raised and fielded; lattice pattern glazing bars to overlight; fluted pilaster doorcase, pediment with triglyph frieze. 3 hipped-roof dormers with paired, 2-pane, side-hung casements.

INTERIOR: Black and white stone-flagged hall; slender turned balusters to open-well oak staircase with wreathed and ramped handrail; panelled dado; mainly 6-panel doors with panelled reveals and soffits; 2-panel doors to attic. Panelled window shutters with panelled soffit. Simple timber surround to attic fireplaces (one concealed behind plasterboard lining). Timber and marble surrounds to first-floor fireplaces, one of which retains original cast-iron hob-grate of opposed semi-circle design. Enriched plaster cornice to left ground-floor room only.