8, 9 And 9A, Rainbow Hill Terrace

WORCESTER

SO8555NE RAINBOW HILL TERRACE 620-1/10/484 (North side) 05/04/71 Nos.8, 9 AND 9A (Formerly Listed as: RAINBOW HILL TERRACE Nos.8 AND 9)

GV II

Pair of houses forming part of terrace. c1830-50 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick; roof concealed by coped parapet; paired end stacks rising from curvilinear parapet have oversailing detail and pots. Wooden porch to left house. Wrought-iron railings to entrance steps and first-floor balconettes. PLAN: double-depth with adjacent entrance halls. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 4 first-floor windows. Stucco incised to represent ashlar, detailing includes arch-headed recesses for first-floor windows with mask crowning ribbed pendant shell ornamental tympana; sill band and band linking heads of these windows; further plain band at eaves level. First-floor sashes are tall 6/9 with bowed lattice balconettes, second-floor are 6/6. The left-hand ground-floor window is 14/8, with a semi-circular arched head and intersecting Gothic tracery glazing bars to the upper sash. The right-hand ground-floor window is 6/6. A flight of 6 steps leads up from the left and right to access each house; slender round balusters to left-hand railings, those to right are replacement. Left door is 5-panel, glazed upper panels, bolection moulded centre panel, the bottom pair of panels are flush double-beaded with stepped corners; fanlight with 'umbrella' glazing pattern; Tuscan-style porch with mutules. Right door is 5-panel, the upper panels are raised and fielded with bolection mouldings, the bottom pair are flush-beaded; 3-pane overlight. To the right-return, very slightly recessed is a 2-storey wing (a separate dwelling as rom c1974), the roof is concealed by a parapet which rises at the centre to carry a fluted urn; the stucco bands from the main elevation run through. The single first-floor window is 13/8 with semi-circular arched head in similar style to that in the left-hand house, two 4/4 sashes on the ground-floor; all in plain reveals with sills. To the left is a semi-circular headed recess with plain tympanum and 5-panel door, the upper pair and centre panel raised and fielded with bolection mouldings, the bottom pair flush-beaded; 4-steps to entrance. INTERIOR: not inspected. 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).