4, College Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1954. House, offices. 1 related planning application.
4, College Yard
- WRENN ID
- waning-passage-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1954
- Type
- House, offices
- OS grid reference
- SO 849 546
- Coordinates
- 52.18944, -2.22093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 College Yard is a house, now used as offices, dating from around 1800. It is constructed of reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond, featuring a stone doorcase and sills, a timber cornice, a plain tile roof, and tall end stacks with renewed oversailing courses and pots. The building has three storeys with attics and three first-floor windows. It has a chamfered brick plinth, with 6/6 sash windows on the ground and first floors, and 3/3 sash windows on the second floor, all set in plain reveals with sills. The windows have flat arches made of darker red gauged brick, with louvered shutters and shutter latches on the first-floor windows.
The entrance is located on the left side, featuring three renewed steps leading to a six-raised-and-fielded-panel door with a fanlight that has gothic glazing bars, topped by an open dentil pediment and flanked by three-quarter engaged columns with palmettes on the capitals. The building has a crowning eaves band and a moulded cornice, along with a low parapet. There are three renewed box dormers with 3/3 sash windows.
Inside, the building retains original plasterwork and joinery, including panelled shutters for the ground and first-floor windows. All the listed buildings in College Yard contribute to the setting of the Cathedral.
Local climate
4, College Yard 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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