Old Baskerville

WORCESTER

SO8456SE BREWERY WALK 620-1/6/66 (West side) 22/5/54 Old Baskerville

GV II

Country house, now flats. c1770-80 with later additions and alterations including conversion to flats in 1975. Red brick with stone and painted stucco dressings, 2-span slate roof with parapeted gables, shortened end stacks with renewed cappings. Wrought-iron balconettes. Double-depth plan with central through-hallway and flanking wings. Front (East) elevation: 3 storeys. 5 (2:1:2) first-floor windows. Stone/ stucco detailing includes frieze, modillion cornice and blocking course, porch, sills and capped fluted keystones to window heads. Mainly 6/6 sashes except second-floor which are 3/3, all in plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches. Central entrance in Ionic-style porch with swags to frieze, 6-panel door; radial pattern fanlight with segmental margin-glazing. Flanking, flat-roofed wings set back to returns, single-storey to South, 3-storey to North. Fenestration to North wing matches main elevation; 6-panel door on ground-floor with 3-pane overlight under flat gauged brick arch with keystone; matching door in South wing. Garden (West) elevation: similar to front elevation apart from 2-storey flat-roofed break forward to right (South) of entrance door; first-floor has 6/9 sashes with scrolled-heart design balconettes; 2-pairs of French windows on ground-floor are a later insertion. Open-pedimented doorcase with pilasters to central entrance; part-glazed door, bottom pair of panels are flush-beaded; radial pattern fanlight. INTERIOR entrance hall retains open-well staircase with winders, wreathed handrail, square balusters; modillion plaster cornice; 6-panel doors, convex reeded architraves with frieze, cornice and lion-mask paterae to corners. Otherwise not inspected. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334; Gwilliam HW: Old Worcester: 1977-: 59).