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Latitude: 52.2 / 52°12'0"N
Longitude: -2.2262 / 2°13'34"W
OS Eastings: 384635
OS Northings: 255779
OS Grid: SO846557
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.1YV
Mapcode Global: VH92M.CYFV
Plus Code: 9C4V6Q2F+2G
Entry Name: 44, Britannia Square
Listing Date: 22 May 1954
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1063852
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488583
ID on this website: 101063852
Location: Britannia Square, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1
County: Worcestershire
District: Worcester
Electoral Ward/Division: Cathedral
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Worcester
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Worcester St George with St Mary Magdalene
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Building
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).
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