OAKHILL.
54 Hill Grove Crescent,
Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
1899
For F. J. Mayers.
The walls are roughcast, the windows are wood-framed with iron casements and the roofs are of red tiles.
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Oakhill (Alan Brooks, Nikolaus Pevsner)
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The entry in Pevsner's Worcestershire (with Alan Brooks, 2007) reads:
In Hillgrove Crescent, S [of outer Kidderminster], late c19houses, including no.54, OAKHILL, built for the carpet designer F.J. Mayers by C.F.A. Voysey, 1899. Typical roughcast, with sloping buttresses, irregular green-painted casement windows, and tiled roof. Asymmetrical entrance front, the main more or less central gable with round-headed doorway; projecting gabled wing, L.
The garden front is even more characteristic, its R half with two canted bays (for dining and drawing rooms), the roof sweeping down between them. The L half is plainer, with a tall chimney as punctuation mark. Inside, a standard Voysey staircase doubling back above the front door; otherwise mostly altered.
No.51, opposite, roughcast, quite small, with hipped roof, may also be by Voysey, perhaps built for the coachman.Source: Pevsner Architectural Guides at Yale University Press.
Description on Historic England
HILL GROVE CRESCENT 1. 5250 (south-east
side) No 54 (Oakhill) SO 87 NW 2/54 18.10.74 II 2. 1899.
Design by C F A Voysey for F J Mayers. Two storeys. Irregular fenestration.
Rough rendered. Tiled roof. Central gabled projection with 5-light window;
4-light window to gabled left-hand section; casements, including one to right
with leaded panes. A round-headed doorway. Rear elevation has deep eaves swept
down between parapeted 2-storey canted bays with leaded lights; long rectangular
casement windows to ground floor; French window.
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Darby, Jonathan, ‘Discovering Oakhill’, The Orchard,
Number 2, 2013, pp.46-53.
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Darby, Jonathan, ‘Oakhill discoveries’, The Orchard,
Number 4, 2015, pp.62-65.
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David Cole,
The Art and Architecture of C.F.A Voysey: English
Pioneer Modernist.
Images Publishing Group, Mulgrave, Victoria,
Australia, 2015, p. 207
(rear elevation)
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