3, 4 And 5, Sansome Place

WORCESTER

SO8555SW SANSOME PLACE 620-1/13/491 (East side) 08/03/74 Nos.3, 4 AND 5

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses, now offices. c1760's with later alterations. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with stucco to ground floor, stone doorcases, cornice and keystones; concealed roof, pinkish-red brick truncated party-wall stack. Double depth plan with staircase between front and rear rooms. 3 storeys, 6 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground floor. First and second floors have 6/6 sashes, all with flat arches of gauged brick and keystones with incised decoration; all in plain reveals. Continuous first-floor sill band, second-floor windows have sills. Crowning frieze and moulded cornice with low, coped parapet. Ground floor has 8/8 sashes. Entrance to right: 6-panel doors, the lower panels lush-beaded, otherwise raised and fielded, all with overlights with margin-lights and in panelled reveals; doorcases have fluted Doric columns with frieze with triglyphs and metopes, cornice. INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork including panelled shutters to some windows, moulded cornices including modillion cornices to hall; staircases have narrow openwell with stick balusters and wreathed handrails where original. HISTORICAL NOTE: shown on Young's Map of 1779. Forms a good group with Nos 1 and 2, No.6 and Nos 7-11 (consecutive) Sansome Place (qqv).