Offices To Rear Of Huntingdon Hall At No 16

WORCESTER

SO8454NE DEANSWAY 620-1/16/206 (East side) 22/05/54 No.16

GV II

Formerly known as: No.16 BIRDPORT. Includes: Offices to rear of Huntingdon Hall at No.16 Deansway, DEANSWAY. Terrace of 3 cottages, now offices. Probably for Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel (now Huntingdon Hall (qv)). c1804 with later alterations including those c1980s when Huntingdon Hall was converted to a concert hall and arts centre by the City of Worcester Building Preservation Trust and re-opened 1987. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond, renewed stone sills and timber doorcases; with slate roof and off-centre right and right end stacks with oversailing courses and pots. 2 storeys, 5 first-floor windows. First floor has 8/8 cambered-arched sashes; ground floor has 10/15 cambered-arched sashes; all with renewed stone sills and with cambered arches of gauged brick. Entrances: off-centre left are renewed 8-panel double doors in pedimented doorcase; pair of off-centre right entrances, renewed part-glazed doors in shared, tooled architrave with frieze and flattened pediments. Right return: one bay deep. First floor has blind opening. INTERIOR: renewed, dogleg staircase off-centre right. Abuts Huntingdon Hall, Bell Square, Crowngate (qv) and is coeval with it.

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