14 And 14A, College Green

A house, later divided into two properties and used as school rooms, was built between 1800 and 1820, incorporating earlier medieval stonework and a range added probably in the 1730s. The main part of the building is constructed of red sandstone ashlar with cream sandstone architraves. A range to the right is of pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond, with an ashlar plinth, architraves, and copings. The roofs are tiled, and the main range has tall brick stacks with oversailing courses and pots, while the range to the right has a tall right-end brick stack. The main range is two storeys with attics, featuring four first-floor windows, and the range to the right is three storeys, with two first-floor windows. The range to the right projects forward, and the first two floors break forward again.

The main range has a chamfered plinth and first-floor windows with 6/6 sashes in plain reveals with architraves and sills. Three box attic dormers are present, each with a 3/3 sash window. The ground floor has alternating windows and doors, all with pointed-arched overlights containing Gothic glazing bars. These include a 6/6 sash window, a multi-pane French door, another 6/6 sash window, and a door with two lower flush-beaded panels and multi-pane glazing, all within hollow-chamfered architraves with an outer roll moulding, and with windows having sills. The range to the right has a raised gable end. The right range features 6/6 sashes on the ground and first floors within plain architraves and with sills, topped by a low coped parapet. The second floor of this range is set back and has 3/6 sashes with architraves, also with a parapet. The left return of the projecting range has a canted bay with two 6/6 sashes and a 4/4 sash, connected by a continuous ashlar band over the windows and a moulded cornice. This bay is finished with a coped parapet, and features a 6/6 sash window on the first floor. At the rear, an entrance is provided from the Cathedral cloister through a four-panel door with a blind overlight featuring Y-tracery in a pointed-arched surround with roll-moulding.

The interior retains much original joinery and plasterwork, including tooled architraves to doors with fleurons at the upper angles, mainly six-panel doors with deep, panelled reveals, and a staircase with carved tread ends, thick balusters, and a handrail that terminates in a lion paw foot, with a flying upper stage. A library ceiling has a Greek key frieze and two axial beams, while a music room features a 19th-century fireplace with a dentil cornice, a lincrusta frieze, and a moulded cornice. The first floor contains a Regency marble fireplace and cornice with an anthemion and grape frieze. The house abuts King’s School Hall and permits access to the undercroft. It occupies a prominent site to the south-east of Worcester Cathedral, and the style of the windows demonstrates influence from the Picturesque aspect of the Cathedral. The building contributes significantly to the group of listed buildings forming the setting for Worcester Cathedral.