Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/78 (South side)
22/5/54 Nos.10-13 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses. c1820 with later additions and alterations.
Painted stucco over brick; concealed slate roof, 4 brick stacks
with oversailing courses and pots, front pair partially concealed
at ends of pediment. Timber bays to ground floor. Double-depth
plan. Designed to look like one large house although all
entrances are in the facade. 3 storeys with basement and attics.
8 (2:2:2:2) first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes
pilasters flanking each pair of windows rising from first-floor
sill band to frieze, moulded cornice and coped parapet; centre 2
houses break forward slightly surmounted by pediment with 3
recessed panels to tympanum; moulded architraves to entrances;
sills; stucco scored to represent ashlar. 6/6 sashes to
first-floor, 3/6 to second; all in plain reveals with sills. 2
small 4/4 attic windows in tympanum. 4 flat-roof canted bays to
ground floor, moulded architraves, 2/1:8/3:2/1 sashes. 3
roll-edged stone steps to entrance; 4-panel doors; bottom pair
flush-beaded, upper raised and fielded with bolection moulding;
radial pattern fanlights. 2-storey service ranges to rear.

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 Q26317198

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014