10, Rainbow Hill Terrace

WORCESTER

SO8555NE RAINBOW HILL TERRACE 620-1/10/485 (North side) 05/04/71 No.10

GV II

House, part of terrace. c1830-50 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick; hipped slate roof; stacks to left hip-end and to ridge of right-return, both in stucco with brick oversailing detail and pots. Timber porch. PLAN: infilled L-shaped plan. Central hallway leads to central staircase. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. South (principal) elevation: 3 first-floor windows, 2 ground-floor windows, all 6/6 in plain reveals with sills. Stucco scored to represent ashlar; simple plinth. Central Doric-style porch with fluted columns and plain pilasters; 2 roll-edged steps to 3-panel door, upper panel margin-glazed, bottom panels flush with raised half-round bead; radial pattern fanlight. Set back to left-return is 2-storey wing which links this house to the terrace; first-floor has semi-circular headed 14/8 window, the upper sash having Gothic-style tracery. Late C20 conservatory to ground-floor. East elevation: 4 first-floor 6/6 sashes. Ground-floor has central canted bay with margin-light 1/1 sashes; further 6/6 sash to left of bay; late C20 purpose-made 9-pane part-glazed door to right. Rear elevation has 2/4, 4/4, 8/8 sashes and a 14/8 semi-circular leaded sash as per front elevation; C20 part-glazed door and doorcase. INTERIOR: retains some original features including panelled doors, architraves with paterae to corners, some plaster cornices and polychromatic ceramic tiles to hall floor. The open-well staircase has slender square balusters with a hint of Chinoiserie to their arrangement. HISTORICAL NOTE: Nos 1-10 (consecutive) Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv) form a good group of listed buildings comparing well with other developments of this period in Worcester such as Britannia Square, Lansdowne Crescent, and Lark Hill (qqv).