Whiteladies House At Worcester Grammar School

WORCESTER

SO8455NE UPPER TYTHING 620-1/8/658 (East side) 22/05/54 Whiteladies House at Worcester Royal Grammar School (Formerly Listed as: THE TYTHING (West side) Whiteladies House (Royal Grammar School))

GV II*

House, now part of Worcester Royal Grammar School. c1720 with later additions and alterations; also incorporates the remains of the C13 chapel of the Cistercian Nunnery of Whiteladies which formerly occupied the site. Ref. also Priory House (qv). Red brick with plain clay tile roof. Stacks to rear roof slope with oversailing detail and pots. Stone sills and doorcase. Early C18 stairhall plan, with mid C20 extension to rear. 2 storeys. 11 first-floor windows. Brick detailing includes plinth; bands above ground and first-floor windows; dentilled eaves; contrasting headers to segmental arches of window openings. Sashes are 4/4 except window to left and 2 windows to right of entrance which are 6/6 with higher sills. Entrance is off-centre right, 6-panel door; late C18 radial pattern traceried fanlight; Ionic-style doorcase with open pediment. 7 gabled dormers have aired side-hung casements each of 3-panes. Remains of C13 chapel abut the right-return, with two lancet windows above smaller recesses. INTERIOR: retains some early features including red and black tiled floor to hall, staircase with heavy section handrail and slender turned balusters, some 2 panel doors and exposed beams. Early C17 reset panelling in rear first-floor room. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 325; Anon: A Short History of the Royal Grammar School: 1985-).