The Cedars

WORCESTER

SO85NW HENWICK ROAD 620-1/1/328 (East side) 01/06/89 No.224 The Cedars

GV II

House. c1855. Rendered brickwork, probably a stone basement, Welsh slate roof; cast-iron balcony on cast-iron brackets. Italianate villa style. Two storeys and basement with 3-storey tower over entrance. Entrance (west) front has 3-storey tower projecting to left. Three-bay loggia to ground floor, band over, 3/6 sash to first floor with tooled architrave, cornice above to general eaves line. 2-light, round-arched window in tower gable. Each floor is framed by pilaster strips. Blank wall to right with projecting stack and string. Tall chimney with paired shaft. South front has 2-storey canted ay to left with sash windows, set within the gable. To right are two windows, 6-light large pane sashes below, 9-light above, all in architraves. Projecting eaves on brackets. East front has basement revealed by falling ground. 3-storey canted bay to left as before. Ground floor has balcony. One window to right; 6/6 sash to ground floor, 3/6 to first floor. INTERIOR: noted as retaining complete joinery and planning of Victorian villa. Stone openwell stair with two trussed balusters to each head and mahogany rail with curtail. Three-light arched stair window. All doors, shutters, cornices and fire surrounds extant, some grates. First floor rooms plain. Back stair from basement to first floor. Basement retains full cellar, laundry with copper and boiler. Kitchen yard retains sheds and offices. A remarkably complete Victorian villa altered only by C20 plumbing in the upper rooms.