1 and 2, Battenhall Place is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1954. Houses. 4 related planning applications.
1 and 2, Battenhall Place
- WRENN ID
- gentle-alcove-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1954
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 1 and 2, Battenhall Place, WR5 2DT
- OS grid reference
- SO 855 541
- Coordinates
- 52.18566, -2.21299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1 and 2 Battenhall Place are a pair of semi-detached houses dating from around 1820, with later additions and alterations. The houses are constructed of painted stucco and brick, with a slate roof. The roof features parapeted gables, stone coping to the left and brick to the right, and decorative mutular eaves. A party-wall ridge stack and a stack to the left gable are present, both with overhanging detail and decorative pots. A lead roof and cheeks cover the dormer.
The houses have a double-depth plan, each having a central lobby entrance. The facade is symmetrical, with two storeys, an attic, and a cellar. There are five (2:1:2) first-floor windows. The stucco detailing includes sills, a plinth, chamfered rustication to the ground floor, which is terminated by a plain band over the window heads. The first floor is lined to simulate ashlar, with false quoins flanking brick piers at the gable ends. Rusticated aprons are present below the first-floor windows, and the window openings have channelled wedge lintels. The centre ground-floor window has a stepped lintel with a lion's head in relief to the keystone; the window above it has an eared architrave and a semicircular arched head with a fluted radial shell motif in the tympanum, and a swag above. All windows are 6/6 sash windows in near-flush frames, with the centre window on each floor being a false window.
The entrances are matching, with stone steps leading to a six-panel door, all raised and fielded. A fanlight is above each entrance; the fanlight to the left is plain, while the one to the right has a petal design. The pilaster doorcase has a frieze and cornice, with relief decoration including acanthus leaves, putti, and musical instruments. The central dormer has a cambered roof. The mullion has a 3/3 sash window on each side. Sash windows are present on the returns, with flat-gauged brick arches and keystones. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
1 and 2, Battenhall Place receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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