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Latitude: 52.198 / 52°11'52"N
Longitude: -2.2271 / 2°13'37"W
OS Eastings: 384572
OS Northings: 255554
OS Grid: SO845555
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.1RZ
Mapcode Global: VH92T.B0ZV
Plus Code: 9C4V5QXF+64
Entry Name: 18 and 19, Britannia Square
Listing Date: 22 May 1954
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1063936
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488564
ID on this website: 101063936
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
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WORCESTER
SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/81 (South side)
22/5/54 Nos.18 AND 19
GV II
2 semi-detached houses. c1820 with later additions and
alterations. Painted stucco over brick; hipped slate roof, party
wall stacks to front and rear roof slopes, both with oversailing
courses and pots, front stack stuccoed. Timber doorcase and
canopy to right-hand house. Double-depth plan with entrances in
return elevations. 3 storey. 2 first-floor windows. Stucco
detailing includes plinth, sills, and inscribed lines to
represent ashlar; castellated single-storey screen walls set back
to left and right returns pierced by open doorway flanked by
blind windows with sills, all with pointed arches; similarly
arched integral boot scrapers to either side of opening. Sashes
are 8/8 except second-floor which are 4/8 to left-hand house and
4/4 to right; all in plain reveals with sills. 2-storey wing with
parapeted flat-roof to rear of left return, 5-panel door flanked
by 4/4 sashes 3-pane overlight; 8/8 sash to first-floor right
under segmental brick arch; single light casement to left. Wing
to right-hand house is single-storey with small C20 4-pane
window; door retained in its original position in return wall is
similarly configured 5-panel, bottom pair flush-beaded, middle
pair and top panel glazed with leaded-lights; fluted door case
and cantilevered canopy with dentils.
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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