Judges Lodgings And Attached Railings

WORCESTER

SO8455SE SANSOME WALK 620-1/12/505 Judges Lodgings and 05/04/71 attached railings (Formerly Listed as: FOREGATE STREET (East side) North Wing Pavilion) (Formerly Listed as: FOREGATE STREET (East side) South Wing Pavilion) (Formerly Listed as: FOREGATE STREET (East side) Judges' Lodgings at Shire Hall)

GV II*

Judges' lodgings and attached railings, now offices. c1834-35 with later alterations. By Charles Day and Henry Rowe. Pinkish-red brick with flat arches of red gauged brick; ashlar porch, cornice, sills and copings; concealed roof; cast-iron railings. PLAN: central hallway plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 3 bays with 1:1:1 first-floor windows. Outer bays project. Central single-story distyle Roman Doric portico in antis surmounted by renewed balustrade. Flight of steps to double, 4-panel doors with sidelights and divided overlight. Tripartite windows throughout with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, those to third storey are smaller, all in plain reveals and with flat arches of gauged brick, those to ground and first floors have sills. Frieze and moulded cornice over first floor with continuous third-floor sill band over. Crowning cornice and coped parapet. Returns are 3-windows deep with similar fenestration. INTERIOR: retains original joinery, plasterwork and marble fireplaces. Hall has imperial staircase with cast-iron balusters and wreathed handrail; oval skylight; upper landing has paired Doric pilasters to front recess; dentil cornice and 4-panel doors. Openwell service staircase to rear with ramped and wreathed oak handrail and cast-iron balusters to full height. Library has picture rails and moulded corice, marble fireplace. ining room has marble fireplace; ceiling rose and dentil cornice. Some shutters to ground-floor windows. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings abutt sides of steps and have x-motif to panels with surmounting anthaemeons, otherwise renewed. HISTORICAL NOTE: An outstanding example of early C19 villa architecture in severe Grecian style, designed to complement the Shire Hall, Foregate Street, by the same architect. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 323).