7-11 Sansome Place

A terrace of five houses located in Sansome Place, Worcester, dating to the 1730s and 1760s, with a later addition to the right return in the early 19th century and further alterations, including a late 19th-century attic to the rightmost house. The construction is of pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond, with red brick and stucco window arches, stone sills, and slate roofing. Brick stacks rise from the left end and party walls, featuring oversailing courses and pots.

The houses are arranged in two distinct building phases. The facade features three storeys with basements, and the rightmost house has an attic. The window arrangement is 2:2:3:2:4 on the first floor. The original windows predominantly feature 8/8 and 6/6 sashes on the first floor and 4/4, 4/8, 3/3 sashes and an 8/8 Yorkshire sash on the second. Ground floor windows retain original 8/8 and 6/6 sashes. Most windows have flat arches constructed of gauged brick, but windows three and four of number 10 have voussoired stucco arches with keystones. The reveals are generally plain, except for the two windows on the right, which are near-flush. A later inserted multi-pane window with an elliptically-arched head is present on the ground floor of number 8. The rightmost house’s attic has an eight-pane casement, while the remaining three attic openings are blind. The eaves display variations, with modillion detailing on the left, followed by plain eaves and friezes with ovolo-moulded cornices. Elliptically-arched slit openings illuminate the basements.

The entrances, located on the right, left, centre, and right sides of the terrace, are distinguished by four- and five-panel doors. The lower panels are flush-beaded, while the upper panels are raised and fielded. The central door is set within panelled reveals. The three rightmost entrances have original overlights with lozenge and margin lights, and the doorcases include fluted and panelled pilasters, a frieze, and a hood, typically topped with a shallow pediment. The second entrance (number 10) features an open pediment. An entrance to a passageway serving number 9 is defined by a cambered-arched opening.

The right return of number 7 exhibits three storeys plus an attic, with two first-floor windows. It has 1/1 sashes in near-flush frames, sills, and flat arches of gauged brick. An attic dormer is centrally positioned and features a 1/1 sash within a pedimented Dutch-style gable. A six-panel door is located on the right, above a renewed fanlight with radial glazing bars within an open-pedimented doorcase.

The interiors of the houses have not been inspected.

Historical records suggest that the rightmost house (number 7) may have formerly been Fell’s Boarding School, established around 1742-1750 and depicted on Young’s Map of 1779.

The terrace forms a notable group alongside numbers 1-6 and 12, 13, and 14 Sansome Place.