Nos 1 And 2 And Attached Garden Walls And Railings

WORCESTER

SO85SE FIELD TERRACE 620-1/4/687 (North West side) 19/08/99 Nos.1 AND 2 and attached garden walls and railings

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1840's, with later additions and alterations. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof concealed behind parapet; party wall stacks, 1 stucco, 1 brick, to front and rear roof slope each with oversailing detail and pots. One room wide, double-depth plan. Symmetrical facade with entrances at left and right, 2 storeys on basement, four first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes plain architraves to windows, ground-floor sills, first-floor sill band, pilasters and entablature to right entrance. First-floor has 1/1 sashes. 2 windows to ground-floor, 3-light mullion and transom, single horizontal glazing bar; all in plain reveals. Louvred shutters to windows of left house. eplacement door and fanlight glazing to left house; 4-panel door to right house, bottom panels flush-beaded, upper panels raised and fielded with bolection moulding; plain fanlight. Rear elevation fenestration includes 6/6 sashes. INTERIORS: noted as retaining original details including panelled doors and shutters (vertical sliding to ground-floor), architraves and skirtings, plaster cornices, staircase with stick balusters and swept handrail terminating in carved foot forming newel post to ground-floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: low brick garden walls with half-round copings surmounted by vertical wrought-iron railings, matching gates; diamond-pattern incised blue-brick paved pedestrian access along length of Terrace. Nos. 1-8 Field Terrace from a good group of mid C19 terraced houses.