Description

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).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317192

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)