Angel Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1987. Community centre. 2 related planning applications.
Angel Centre
- WRENN ID
- long-facade-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1987
- Type
- Community centre
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Angel Centre, originally built as a Sunday school, is now a community centre. It was constructed between 1887 and 1888 by Aston Webb. The building is made of yellow brick, featuring stone bands, quoins, dressings, and copings, with roofs of slate and shingle. It has a rectangular plan and a gabled roof that rises higher in the centre. The main entrance is canted at the corner and set back, and the building is two storeys tall with stone sill bands and cornice bands that extend through the entrance tower.
The north side has an irregular five-bay fenestration, while the east side has four bays. To the left of the east front, there is a deep canted bay with a hipped roof and a dentilled cornice. All windows are of the mullion and transom cross-type, featuring segmentally-arched heads on the upper lights. The gabled hall block rises behind the north front and extends back to the south, with a gabled dormer in the roof on the east side of the hall.
The entrance is located in a three-storey porch set back in the north-east corner at a 45-degree angle, with three steps leading up to six-panel double doors. These doors have a moulded lintel and an acanthus keystone, topped by a double-hollow-chamfered round arch and a figure of a seated child reading in the gable. The first-floor features octagonal side buttresses with striped brick and stone quoining, which rise to crown-like finials flanking a slim window with a crest in a tall triangular gable. A tiled finial with a weathervane is located behind this gable. The first floor also has a single transom and mullion cross-window above a pointed triangular hood with a segmental intrados and panelled tracery above the double doors.
Inside, the building has an unusual plan with offices arranged around a central two-storey hall, which features a gallery supported by columns in a polygonal plan. The gallery includes a wooden balustrade. Historically, the Angel Centre was built as a Sunday school for the Congregational Church, which is now known as the Tramps Nightclub.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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