Park House And Attached Railings

WORCESTER

SO8554SE FORT ROYAL LANE 620-1/21/277 No.10 15/05/79 Park House and attached railings

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Detached villa with attached railings to steps. c1828 with later additions and alterations; said to have been built for Humphrey Chamberlain (of Chamberlain's Porcelain Manufactory, Worcester). Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof, boxed eaves. Central stucco stack with oversailing detail and pots. Wrought-iron handrail to entrance steps. Cast-iron column and timber shutters to porch. Timber doorcase. Double-depth plan. Access in right return to stairhall. South Elevation: Unusually tall proportions, 3 storeys and semi-basement. 2 first-floor windows. Stucco lined to represent ashlar, detailing includes plinth; giant pilasters flanking each window, frieze to capitals decorated with anthemia; plain eaves band below moulded cornice; fluted fan and acanthus leaf decoration to tympana above ground- and first-floor windows. Windows to semi-basement are 4/4 sashes, to elevated ground-floor 1/1, to first-floor 6/6, to second-floor 3/3; all in plain reveals with sills; ground and first-floor have round arched heads, second-floor have cambered heads; external blind boxes to ground-floor. Left return: 2 first-floor windows. Stucco plinth and eaves detail continued from south elevation. 3/3 sash to second-floor, otherwise 6/6. External blind-boxes to ground and first-floors. Right-return: 1 first-floor window. Stucco plinth and eaves detail continued from south elevation. 3/3 sash to second-floor, otherwise 6/6. Pointed arch opening to lower left is glazed door to semi-basement. 2-storey outshut to right of elevation forms partially open porch enclosing wall to right and column to left front, space to right of column infilled with hinged panelled shutters; porch accessed from left by a flight of 9 stone steps, wreathed handrail with slender round balusters. 6-panel entrance door, bottom pair of panels triple-beaded, otherwise raised and fielded; fluted architrave, panelled reveals; plain fanlight. INTERIOR: Retains original features including open-well staircase with wreathed handrail and square balusters; panelled doors and shutters; architraves with paterae to doors and windows; decorative plaster cornices; marble fireplace with cast-iron grate.