Listing Text

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/80 (South side)
22/5/54 Nos.16 AND 17

GV II

2 semi-detached houses. c1820 with later additions and
alterations. Painted stucco over brick; hipped slate roof, party
wall stack to front and rear roof slope with oversailing courses
and pots. Canted bays in timber with dentilated and bracketed
eaves. Timber-framed conservatory to left return. Double-depth
plan with entrances in 2-storey wings set back to left and right
return elevations. 3 storeys. 2 first-floor windows. Stucco
detailing includes sills. 2-storey flat-roof canted bays
(1/1:2/2:1/1) are mid c19; Second-floor windows are 6/6. 3/3
sashes to first-floor of wings. Door to left-hand house is
3-panel, upper panel glazed, bottom pair flush-beaded; French
window in return wall; both accessed through lean-to
conservatory; right-hand house has similar 3-panel door but upper
panel is raised and fielded; plain semi-elliptical fanlights.
Return elevations and wings are unpainted brick.
INTERIOR: right-hand house retains some original features
including panelled doors, architraves, picture rails; staircase
with winders and square balusters; fireplaces on second-floor.
Left house not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: A glazed structure is indicated on the left-hand
house on the 1886 Ordnance Survey map drawn to a scale of 1:500.

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 a Worcester such as
Lansdowne Crescent, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth:
1968-1985: 334).