Park House and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1979. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Park House and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- empty-tower-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1979
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Park House and Attached Railings, 10, Fort Royal Lane, WR5 1BX
- OS grid reference
- SO 856 543
- Coordinates
- 52.18703, -2.21144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park House is a detached villa dating from around 1828, believed to have been built for Humphrey Chamberlain of Chamberlain's Porcelain Manufactory in Worcester. The house is constructed of painted stucco over brick, with a hipped slate roof and boxed eaves. A central brick stack features an oversailing detail and decorative pots. Wrought-iron handrails lead to the entrance steps.
The architectural style is characterized by unusually tall proportions, with three storeys and a semi-basement. The south elevation is designed to resemble ashlar masonry, incorporating a plinth, giant pilasters flanking each window, an anthemium-decorated frieze to the capitals, a plain eaves band, and a moulded cornice. Fan and acanthus leaf decoration adorns the tympana above the ground and first-floor windows. The basement windows are 4/4 sashes, while the elevated ground-floor windows are 1/1, the first-floor windows are 6/6, and the second-floor windows are 3/3. All windows are in plain reveals with sills; the ground and first floors have round arched heads, and the second floor has cambered heads, with external blind boxes to the ground floor.
The left return also features two first-floor windows, continuing the stucco plinth and eaves detail. A 3/3 sash window is present on the second floor, with 6/6 windows elsewhere, and external blind boxes to the ground and first floors. The right return has a single first-floor window and a similar stucco detailing with a 3/3 sash on the second floor and 6/6 windows on the lower floors. A pointed arch opening provides access to the semi-basement, and a two-storey outshut to the right forms a partially open porch, enclosing a wall to the right and a column to the left front; the space to the right of the column has been infilled with hinged panelled shutters. The porch is accessed by a flight of nine stone steps with a wreathed handrail and slender round balusters. The entrance door has six panels, with the bottom pair being triple-beaded, raised and fielded panels elsewhere, a fluted architrave, panelled reveals, and a plain fanlight. Attached railings are present.
The interior retains original features including an open-well staircase with a wreathed handrail and square balusters, panelled doors and shutters, architraves with paterae to doors and windows, decorative plaster cornices, and a marble fireplace with a cast-iron grate.
Local climate
Park House and Attached Railings receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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