Hostel House

WORCESTER

SO8554SW COLLEGE GREEN 620-1/20/160 (South side) 22/05/54 No.5 Hostel House (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE GREEN (South side) No.5)

GV II

House. Mid C18 with later additions and alterations. New wing to rear right 1906 by A. Hill Parker, replaced coach house and granary. Painted brick with stone sills. Plain clay tile roof, dentilled eaves and parapeted end-gables. 3 brick stacks to rear roof slope, all with oversailing detail and pots. Timber door canopy PLAN: Double-fronted, double-depth 2 storeys and attics. 2-window range to left projects forward under hipped roof. Full-height canted bay to right under hipped roof. 7 (2:2:3) first-floor windows. 6/6 sashes throughout, those to bay in plain reveals otherwise near-flush, all with sills and flat gauged brick arches with capped keystones; 2 centre first-floor windows have thick glazing bars. Stone step to right of entre entrance, 6-panel door, all raised and fielded; 3-pane overlight; corniced canopy on shaped brackets. 3 cambered-roof dormers with paired side-hung casements of 6, 8, and 3-panes. INTERIOR: early C19 joinery, including panelled doors in moulded timber architraves, and marble fireplaces. Staircase of 1906, with tapered newels and stick balusters. All the listed buildings in College Green are part of a significant group forming the setting for Worcester Cathedral (qv) to the north side. The rear boundary wall to Nos. 2-6 College Green (qqv) is part of the Monastic Precinct Wall (Scheduled Ancient Monument). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334; Worcester Cathedral Publications: Knowles Joan M: College Green Worcester 1800-1900: Worcester: 1995-).