Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/82 (South side)
22/5/54 No.20

GV II

House. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco
over brick; hipped slate roof; central stucco stack with brick
oversailing detail and pots. Double-depth plan with entrance in
right return elevation. 2-storeys. 2 first-floor windows. Stucco
detailing includes full-height pilasters to ends and centre
linked by plain frieze; sills; fluted architrave to entrance. 8/8
sashes in plain reveals with sills; external louvered shutters to
ground floor. Left return is painted brick; right return has 6/6
sash to first-floor at right with entrance below; 6-panel door,
upper panels glazed with bolection moulding, bottom pair flush
with double-bead, panelled reveals are all flush-beaded; plain
fanlight. 2-storey service range 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 Q26317205

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)