1, Worcester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. School. 3 related planning applications.
1, Worcester Road
- WRENN ID
- narrow-timber-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 Worcester Road is an attached house, now functioning as a school, built in 1863 by Charles Hansom. The building is constructed from squared Brandon Hill grit rubble with limestone dressings, featuring external and ridge stacks, and a tiled roof adorned with bands of round-nosed tiles and decorative ridge tiles. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Gothic Revival style, comprising two storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a three-window range.
The nearly symmetrical front façade includes outer gables with barge-boards, a first-floor string course, and a central doorway featuring an open two-centred arch supported by banded columns. This doorway is topped by a segmental hood with square stops and foliate carved spandrels, leading to a two-leaf six-panel door. Ground-floor buttresses flank the doorway. The windows are designed with ogee heads and splayed reveals, consisting of 2/2-pane sashes with horizontal bars. To the right of the doorway, there are paired windows with a central attached column featuring a foliate capital, set within a square label beneath a two-centred arched carved panel. To the left, a matching window is situated in a canted bay with a drip and a parapet pierced with quatrefoils.
A prominent two-sided central oriel window showcases moulded and carved corbelling, with windows featuring Decorated Gothic tracery and a projecting weathered top with crenellations. The outer first-floor windows are paired and set within two-centred relieving arches, displaying alternate white and grey voussoirs, along with a matching single light in the gables and a single central gabled dormer. The left-hand elevation mirrors the right, featuring a similar left-hand gable with a canted bay and a right-hand external stack, as well as a rear gabled wing with paired ground-floor windows. The interior has been largely remodelled in the late 20th century.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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