Nos. 1-12 Gheluvelt Park, Worcester

Heritage listing

Details A group of twelve houses, built for former sailors and soldiers in 1919-1920 and designed by Alfred Hill Parker in a picturesque vernacular style. MATERIALS: red brick and pebble-dashed, and colour-washed render with plain-tiled, hipped roofs. PLAN: the cottages are clustered in six groups, to either side of a wide pathway in Gheluvelt Park. A bungalow is positioned to the south of the path at the eastern end, but the other, two-storey houses are all placed in groups of two or three on the north side. Each has two first-floor bedrooms and a living room and parlour (which the architect's plans indicate could instead be used as a bedroom, if needed) with kitchen and service rooms at ground-floor level. EXTERIOR: except for the free-standing bungalow, the show fronts of Nos. 2-12 are all oriented to the south, while the backs are accessed from Lavender Road. The majority of the windows across the buildings have been replaced by uPVC-framed casements. Chimneys across all of the buildings are to full height. No. 1 has, to its south side, a recessed veranda porch at left and a three-light casement to right. A shallow gable runs the complete width of the front and has a keyed oval of projecting brick headers and stretchers to the centre. The right corner has quoin bands of brick. The west front has a projecting gabled wing at left with quoin bands at the corners and a canted bay window to the centre. To the left is a single casement and the side of the veranda. The east front has blank walling at left and a three-light window to the projecting central bay, to the right of which is the wall enclosing a kitchen yard. The north entrance front has a projecting, central wing with hipped roof. The entrance porch and recessed door is at right and a portion of walling with app

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.