Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/85 (West side)
22/5/54 Nos.23 AND 24

GV II

2 semi-detached houses. c1820 with later additions and
alterations. Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof,
partially renewed end stacks with brick oversailing detail and
pots. Cast-iron balustrade to porch. Double-depth plan with
adjoining central entrance doors within shared porch. 2 storeys.
3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes plinth, raised
chamfered quoins and matching rustication to door surrounds and
square columns to porch. All sashes 8/8 except centre first-floor
which is a pair of 4/4 with central mullion, all in plain reveals
with sills. 5-panel entrance doors with overlights within
Doric-style porch supported on 3 columns, ornamental cast-iron
balustrade in scroll design to front, 3 tapered, roll-edged stone
steps to each side of porch.

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 Q26317208

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)