4 And 5, Rainbow Hill Terrace

WORCESTER

SO8555NE RAINBOW HILL TERRACE 620-1/10/482 (North side) 05/04/71 Nos.4 AND 5

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Pair of houses forming part of terrace. c1830-50 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick; roof concealed by coped parapet; end stacks, that to left has oversailing details and pots. Wooden porch with wrought-iron screen panel to left house; wooden balcony on cast-iron pillars with wrought-iron embellishments to right-hand house. Wooden door surround to both houses. Double-depth with adjacent entrance halls. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 5 (3:2) second-floor windows, 3 (2:1) first-floor windows, 3 (2:1) ground-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes plinth, full-width band above second-floor windows, plain architrave to ground-floor window of right-hand house. Left-hand house: windows are 6/6 sashes except second-floor which are 3/6, all in plain reveals with sills. 6-steps to Doric-style porch, geometric pattern decorative open screen to left side; 4-panel door, upper pair of panels and centre panel raised and fielded, bottom panel flush-beaded; matching panelled reveals; plain fanlight. 6/6 sash to basement. Right-hand house: Second-floor windows are 2/2 unequal sashes. Large semi-circular oriel window to first-floor has blind recess to front flanked by French windows with margin-glazing; these access balcony, part-supported on columns, part-cantilevered; simple metal balustrade. 6/6 sash to ground floor. 6 steps to entrance, 6-panel door, bottom panels flush-beaded, upper 4 panels glazed, door visually divided to look like pair by flush bead; panelled reveals and soffit; doorcase has fluted pilasters and matching frieze. Decorative open screen to left of door matches that of left-hand house; spandrel brackets to balcony columns are to the same pattern. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original features including panelled doors and window shutters, skirtings and architraves, plaster cornices; right house has scrolled cast-iron balustrade to staircase and polychromatic ceramic floor tiles to hall. HISTORICAL NOTE: Nos 1-10 (consecutive) Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv) form a good group of listed buildings comparing well with other developments of this period in Worcester such as Britannia Square, Lansdowne Crescent, and Lark Hill (qqv).