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Latitude: 52.1988 / 52°11'55"N
Longitude: -2.2254 / 2°13'31"W
OS Eastings: 384692
OS Northings: 255644
OS Grid: SO846556
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.264
Mapcode Global: VH92M.CZWS
Plus Code: 9C4V5QXF+GR
Entry Name: 1, Britannia Square
Listing Date: 22 May 1954
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1063924
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488555
ID on this website: 101063924
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
620-1/8/72 (South side)
22/5/54 No.1
GV II
House. c1820, with later additions and alterations. Painted
stucco over brick to front and left return. Slate roof. Rear and
gable end stacks with oversailing courses and pots, rear and two
to right in brick, left-hand stack stuccoed and integral with
partial parapet to gable. Timber porch and bay windows.
Double-depth plan with central hallway. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor
windows. Stucco detailing includes sills, and scoring to
represent ashlar. Centre first-floor window is 6/6; 8/8 sash to
left and right, all in plain reveals with sills. Doric style
porch; 5 panel door, bottom pair flush-beaded, bolection moulding
to centre and upper panels; plain fanlight; roll-edged stone
step. Entrance flanked by rectangular bay windows with cornice to
flat roof, paired 6/1 sashes with 4/1 sash to returns.
Left-return-elevation has ground-floor canted bay with 1/1 sashes
with 8/8 sash to first-floor. Rear elevation has 8/8 sash and 4/4
staircase sash. 2-storey flat roof extension to rear left.
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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