No 4 with Attached Area Railings

No. 4 is a villa, dating to circa 1850, which has been adapted for multiple offices. It includes attached area railings. Later additions and alterations have been made, including a mid-20th century wing to the east return. The villa is constructed of red brick with stone and painted-stucco dressings, all set beneath hipped roofs covered in Roman tiles. Distinctive ornate chimneys are present; one has a brick shaft with raised panels rising from a stucco plinth, topped with a corniced stucco cap and hexagonal post. A central stack to the main block has a cruciform plan with four flues, while the rear wall’s entrance tower features a rectangular stack with three pots. An iron scrollwork weather-vane tops the tower roof. Wrought-iron steps and area railings are also part of the property.

The building’s plan features a main block to the east, containing a central hall and staircase, and a tower set back on the west return, with a projecting entrance porch. The right-hand portion of the elevation projects forward. The architectural style is Italianate. The main block is two storeys high, with two first-floor windows. Decoration includes chamfered rusticated quoins, a moulded plinth, a continuous sill band to the first-floor windows, a moulded frieze and modillion cornice, and moulded architraves to the windows. Pilasters are present to the left ground-floor French window, featuring stylised petal motifs to their capitals. First-floor windows are predominantly 6/6 sashes; the window to the left is tripartite, flanked by 2/2 sashes. A tripartite ground-floor window to the left projects under a hipped lead roof, with half-sashes flanking a central French window with an overlight, accessed by a "flying" open-grille staircase. The right ground-floor features a tall 2/4 sash, accessed by four roll-edged stone steps. Blind boxes are visible on both the first and ground floors.

The tower is three storeys high, with one first-floor window. Stucco detailing includes an open porch with keystones, moulded imposts and architraves to semi-circular arches, a cornice, and a panelled blocking course with raised elliptical central feature containing a petal motif in relief, flanked by scrolled brackets. The sill band and cornice continue from the main block. Quoins are present on the ground and first floors, with panelled clasping pilasters linked by a plain frieze. The first floor has a 6/6 sash, and the second floor has a 3/3 sash. A flight of four roll-edged steps leads to the porch, which has a ceramic tiled floor, a stone vase balustrade to the west, and blind eastern arches. A semi-circular headed entrance door has eight raised and fielded panels. Three 6/6 sashes are present on the first floor of the east return; the west return has a pair of 1/2 semi-circular headed sashes with coloured glass to the margin-lights on the ground floor, with 6/6 and 3/3 sashes above.

The interior features a blind-arcaded hallway, original joinery including panelled doors and a dogleg staircase with turned vase balusters. The area railings have cross and circle motifs. According to Gwilliam, the villa was built for Thomas Chalk by Henry Day, who was likely the son of architect Charles Day and was County Surveyor in Worcester in the 1830s; his principal work was The Shire Hall, Worcester.