Whiteladies House at Worcester Grammar School is a Grade II* listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1954. House.
Whiteladies House at Worcester Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- keen-soffit-lichen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whiteladies House at Worcester Grammar School, Upper Tything
- OS grid reference
- SO 847 558
- Coordinates
- 52.20029, -2.22402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whiteladies House, now part of Worcester Royal Grammar School, is a house dating from around 1720, with later additions and alterations. It incorporates remnants of the 13th-century chapel of the Cistercian Nunnery of Whiteladies, which once occupied the site. The building is constructed of red brick and features a plain clay tile roof. There are stacks on the rear roof slope with oversailing detail and pots. The stone sills and doorcase add to its architectural character.
The house has an early 18th-century stairhall plan and a mid-20th-century extension at the rear. It stands two storeys tall and has eleven first-floor windows. The brick detailing includes a plinth, bands above the ground and first-floor windows, dentilled eaves, and contrasting headers above the segmental arches of the window openings. Most of the sashes are 4/4, except for one window to the left and two windows to the right of the entrance, which are 6/6 and have higher sills. The entrance, located off-centre to the right, features a six-panel door with a late 18th-century radial pattern traceried fanlight and an Ionic-style doorcase with an open pediment. The roof is adorned with seven gabled dormers, each fitted with side-hung casements of three panes.
Inside, the building retains several early features, including a red and black tiled floor in the hall, a staircase with a heavy section handrail and slender turned balusters, some two-panel doors, and exposed beams. Additionally, there is early 17th-century reset panelling in the rear first-floor room.
Local climate
Whiteladies House at Worcester Grammar School 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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