Belmont House

WORCESTER

SO85SW BRANSFORD ROAD 620-1/3/57 No.61 05/04/71 Belmont House

II

House. c1800 with later additions and alterations including C20 raising to bays. Reddish-pink brick, in Flemish bond to front facade with gauged red brick flat arches; ashlar cornice; hipped plain tile roof and off-centre right brick stack with oversailing course; timber doorcase; cast-iron balconettes. Double-depth plan with central hallway and single-storey service range to rear at left. Ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes, second floor has 3/3 sashes; all in plain reveals and with sills, flat arches. Central entrance: 2 roll-edged steps (1 renewed) to 6-panel door (lower panels flush beaded, upper panels raised and fielded), fanlight with glazing bars; doorcase has fluted pilasters and corn and ribbon motif to 'frieze', open pediment with lozenge motif. Garden (left) return: 2 canted ground-floor bays, both raised to 2 storeys, have 8/8 and 6/6 sashes and French windows, all under flat arches. Rear has two 6/6 sashes to first floor, 6/4 staircase sash and two 3/3 sashes, all with plain reveals and cambered arches. To rear the outer windows have balconettes with embellished bars and ornate scroll motifs. Modillion eaves band. Right return: blind opening to first and second floors with cambered arches and ground-floor 6/6 sash with cambered arch. INTERIOR: retains original plasterwork and joinery; hall has frieze with fleur-de-lys motif; 6-panel doors with tooled architraves; pull-up shutters. Pine fireplace c1730 introduced probably C20. Bays have column cluster stanchions (introduced c1990s). Room to left has cornice with floral motif and flitched beam, bolection-moulded fireplace (introduced C20 came from College Gates) with cast-iron grate (with view of iron bridge at Coalbrookdale). To rear a fireplace with corbel brackets.