Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/100 (North side)
22/5/54 No.44

GV II

Detached house. c1820 with later additions and alterations.
Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof. Stucco
end-stacks with brick oversailing detail and pots.
Double-fronted, double-depth plan with entrance in right-return.
2 storeys and cellar. 4 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing
includes plain plinth, corner pilasters with egg-and-dart
moulding to caps, plain eaves frieze with moulded top edge; plain
band between ground and first-floor windows; stucco scored to
represent ashlar. Windows are all 6/6 sashes in plain reveals
with sills. Entrance in right-return; 5-panel door, bottom pair
of panels flush double-beaded, centre panel and upper pair raised
and fielded with bolection moulding; panelled reveals (3-panels
all flush double-beaded); radial pattern fanlight; timber
doorcase with incised geometrical design to pilasters, similar
design to frieze with egg-and-dart moulding below cornice. 6/6
sash to first-floor aligned over entrance. Similar window to left
return.
INTERIOR Noted as retaining original features including
staircase, panelled doors, architrave, skirtings, plaster
cornices.

All the listed buildings in Britannia Square (qv) form a unified
group, started in 1820 and planned around a large green in which
the main house is placed ('Springfield', qv). Compares with
similar, although smaller, developments in Worcester such as
Lansdowne Crescent, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth:
1968-1985: 334).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317123

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)