Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/75 (South side)
22/5/54 No.5

GV II

Villa. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco
over brick; hipped slate roof. Stucco stack with cornice detail
to right gable-end. 2 similar stacks to roof slopes of central
rear wing, that to right with pots. Full-height stone bay
windows. Ferrous balustrade to balcony. Double-depth T-plan with
recessed central entrance and hallway. 2 storeys. 3 first-floor
windows. Stucco detailing includes full-height pilasters flanking
entrance and to ends, first-floor sill band to each side of bays,
plain frieze, Doric-style porch and door surround to left of
facade. 2-storey, flat-roof, canted bay to each side of entrance,
ground-floor stonework is fluted with plinths and capitals;
stonework to first-floor is plain apart from carved panels below
sills depicting paired beasts and shields; all windows to bays
are 1/1 with tall bottom sashes to ground-floor only. 4 slate
steps to recessed entrance porch, square columns with incised
geometric design; pair of 6-panel external doors, all panels
raised and fielded; single pane overlight; inner pair of glazed
doors, 4-pane with margin glazing. Porch roof forms balcony
accessed by French window of similar design to porch inner-doors.
Balcony balustrade has central pair of diagonal braces flanked by
verticals. Small single storey wings set back to each return
elevation; that to left has French window, each leaf has 3 panes
with margin glazing; surround has matching pilasters to entrance
porch with entablature and pediment. Wing to right has C20
vertically boarded and part glazed garage doors beneath coped
gable of similar profile to pediment. 2-storey service range to
rear right.
HISTORICAL NOTE: 1886 Ordnance Survey map at 1:500 scale shows
canted bays to front elevation.

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 Q26317195

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