Boughton Villa

WORCESTER

SO85SW SCHOOL ROAD 620-1/3/507 (West side) 05/04/71 No.2 Boughton Villa (Formerly Listed as: BRANSFORD ROAD (South side) Boughton Villa)

GV II

Villa. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof, stucco stack to left end and 2 stacks to hip, all with oversailing courses and pots; cast-iron balcony. PLAN: double depth plan with central entrance and service range at rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. End Tuscan pilasters, central breakforward, crowning frieze and wide eaves. Outer 8/8 sashes, that to centre of first floor has 8-pane French windows with margin-lights, all in plain reveals and with sills, windows to ground floor in taller, round-arched reveals with plasterwork fan. Central entrance a 4-panel door, the lower 2 panels flush-beaded, otherwise raised-and-fielded, in Doric porch; over porch a balcony with double-heart-and-lozenge motif. Left return: 3 first-floor windows. Outer first-floor openings are blind, otherwise 8/8 sashes, those to ground floor in taller, round-arched reveals, 2 with similar plasterwork fans. Rear has 8/8 and 6/6 sashes; 4-flush-panel door. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including panelled shutters to some windows and 6-panel doors.