Priory House At Worcester Royal Grammar School

WORCESTER

SO8455NE UPPER TYTHING 620-1/8/655 (East side) 22/05/54 Priory House at Worcester Royal Grammar School (Formerly Listed as: THE TYTHING (West side) Priory House)

GV II

House, now part of Worcester Royal Grammar School. c1730 with later additions and alterations; incorporates the remains of the C13 chapel of the Cistercian Nunnery of Whiteladies which formerly occupied the site. Ref. also Whiteladies House (qv). Red brick with stone detailing; plain clay tile roof. Timber doorcase, canopy and brackets. 2 storeys with cellar and attics. 5 first-floor windows. Brick detailing includes plinth and plain eaves band surmounted by dentils. Stone detailing ncludes fluted keystones with moulded caps to window heads; sills. Windows are all 6/6 sashes, near-flush frames under gauged brick flat arches. 6-panel entrance door with 3-light overlight; simple doorcase and flat canopy on shaped brackets. 3 cambered-roof dormers with curved head 3/3 sashes. INTERIOR: retains staircase with wreathed handrail with unusual 'S'-curved ramps, slender turned balusters with knops. Some 2-panel doors on upper floors. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 325).