Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/103 (North side)
22/5/54 Nos.47 AND 48
Cumberland House (No.48)

GV II

2 semi-detached houses. c1820 with later additions and
alterations. Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof.
Re-built brick ridge stacks with oversailing detail and pots.
Single-depth, T-shaped plan. Right-house (No.48) is
double-fronted. Asymmetrically divided, left-house is 2-window
range, right-house is 4-window range (2:1:1). 3 storeys and
cellar. 6 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes plain
plinth, pilasters to front corners and flanking entrance to
right-house, frieze with inset panels; Doric-style porch to
right-house; stucco inscribed to represent ashlar. Second-floor
windows are 3/3 sashes, otherwise 6/6; all in plain reveals with
sills. 2 steps to entrance of No.48 to right of elevation,
6-panel door, bottom pair of panels flush double-beaded, upper
panels raised and fielded with bolection moulding; panelled
reveals (4 panels per side, all flush double-beaded); petal
design fanlight with very slender glazing bars. Covered passage
at left of elevation has matching 6-panel door to right-house.
Entrance to left-house is in left return, 3-panel door, bottom
pair of panels flush double-beaded, upper panel margin glazed;
radial pattern fanlight; narrow reeded architrave. Left and right
returns have similar fenestration to front (west) elevation.
INTERIORS: original features include panelled doors and shutters,
ornamental plasterwork including cornices and ceiling centres;
some fireplaces; staircases (that to right-house is open-well
with wreathed and ramped handrail, square balusters except to
ground-floor which are elaborate scroll design in cast-iron.

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 Q26317126

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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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)