Tybridge House

WORCESTER

SO8454NW TYBRIDGE STREET 620-1/15/652 (North side) 22/05/54 No.52 Tybridge House

II

House, now offices. c1820. Red brick with stucco detailing. Hipped slate roof, parapet to front and part of each return, links to end stacks, oversailing detail and pots. Timber porch. Double-depth plan with central entrance hall and staircase. 2 storeys. 3 first-floor windows. Symmetrical facade, full height recess to centre with semi-circular arched head. Stucco detailing includes plinth, cornice and parapet with ramped centre section, sills and keystones. 8/8 sashes to left and right, all in plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches, fluted capped keystones; centre first-floor window has a pair of tall side-hung casements, each of 3-panes with margin-glazing, radial-pattern fanlight also with margin-glazing. Step to renewed 6-panel door, reveals have lush-double-bead panels, Tuscan-style porch with panelled soffits; ellipse and petal design fanlight. 6/6 and 8/8 sashes under cambered arch heads to return elevations. INTERIOR: retains some original features including staircase with square balusters, wreathed and ramped handrail; 6-panel doors; doorcases have panelled reveals, single-panel architraves with carved leaf decoration to paterae, cornice; skirtings and picture rails; enriched plaster cornices; entrance hall believed to be stone-paved.