44 AND 46, LARK HILL

WORCESTER

SO85SE LARK HILL 620-1/4/383 Nos.44 AND 46 22/05/54 Formerly Listed as: LARKHILL ROAD No.44) Formerly Listed as: LARKHILL ROAD No.46)

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas. c1819-24 with later additions and alterations. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and stuccoed party-wall stacks with pots. 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows and service ranges to rear. Symmetrical, classical design with main facade to garden (west) front. Stucco detailing includes full height Doric pilasters to ends, then paired pilasters between windows. Wide eaves. First floor has 8/8 sashes with blind boxes; second floor has 4/4 sashes; ground floor has tall 6/6 sashes where original; all in plain reveals and with sills. Timber verandah to garden facade, ground floor. Entrances to sides and rear: 3-panel part-glazed door with fanlight with radial glazing bars and part-renewed timber doorcase. INTERIOR: No.46 has dogleg staircase with wreathed handrail; marble fireplace; panelled shutters to windows. HISTORIC NOTE: the Lark Hill development, c1819-24, was originally intended to be more extensive with terraces and a crescent. Nos 38 to 50 (even) and Woodside, Lark Hill Road form a good group of villas. No.44 was formerly listed as No.4 and No.46 was formerly listed as No.5 Larkhill Road. (Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian Worcs: 1989-: 44).