7-12, Victoria Place

WORCESTER

SO8554SE VICTORIA PLACE, LONDON ROAD 620-1/21/660 (West side) 20/11/75 Nos.7-12 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA PLACE, LONDON ROAD Nos.1 TO 6, 6A AND 7, 12) (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA PLACE, LONDON ROAD Nos.1-6, 6A (Consecutive))

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Terrace of 6 houses. c1780-1820 with later additions and alterations. Red-orange brick, stone sills. Slate roof, plain eaves band to left pair, dentilled eaves to asymmetric roof of 4 houses to right. Nos 7 and 8 have gable-end stacks to front and rear roof slopes, Nos 9 to 12 have 2 party-wall ridge stacks; all with oversailing detail and pots. PLAN: 2 houses to left are deeper and project forward beyond the rest of the terrace, each house is one room wide, all double-depth. East Elevation: Left-hand pair (7 and 8) are 3 storeys. 2 first-floor windows; 6/6 except second-floor which are 3/3, all in near-flush frames with sills; segmental arches over ground- and first-floor. Stone steps to adjacent renewed raised and fielded 6-panel doors; plain fanlight under semi-circular brick arch. Right of terrace (9 to 12) is 2-storey. 4 (2:2:2:2) first-floor windows, paired 3-pane side-hung casements in plain reveals with brick sills. Ground-floor windows are 6/6 sashes in near-flush-frames; segmental arches and brick sills. Brick steps to replacement raised and fielded 6-panel doors. Single-storey brick-and-slate bin-stores are last quarter of C20. Left-return is renewed brickwork (terrace originally extended further South); right-return is stucco. West elevation: Left-hand houses 12 to 9) are 3-storey. 5 first-floor windows, 8/8 in near-flush-frames; sills and segmental arches; centre window is blind. Four windows to ground-floor are similar 8/8. Second-floor are 4/4 except blind-window to centre. Renewed 6-panel doors to left, centre (2 adjacent) and right; segmental arches over. Elevation of right-pair of houses (8 and 7) identical to east facade. INTERIOR: not inspected. Similar design to Nos 13-19 Victoria Place (qv).