Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE ALBANY TERRACE
620-1/8/7 (North side)
08/3/74 No.10
(Formerly Listed as:
ALBANY TERRACE
(North side)
Nos.6-30 (Even))

GV II

House, now flats. c1820-40 with later additions and
alterations.

MATERIALS: painted stucco over brick, hipped slate roof. End
stacks, stucco with brick oversailing detail, pots missing.
PLAN: double-depth with entrance in right-return.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. 4 first-floor windows.
Stucco detailing includes sills, plinth, corner pilasters with
capitals, simple frieze with moulded upper edge and recessed
rectangular panels, doorcase in right return elevation; stucco
scored to represent ashlar. 4 ground-floor windows are 6/6
sashes as first-floor; all in plain reveals with sills; all
have external louvered timber shutters. Basement has C20
windows; C20 block retaining wall to area. Entrance door in
right-return accessed via open semi-circular headed archway in
set-back single-storey link with adjacent house to right, No.8
(qv) Albany Terrace; C20 glazed entrance door, radial pattern
fanlight with segmental margin-glazing; doorcase has paired
pilasters to reveals with incised Greek-key style motif,
similar design to arch soffit within moulded frame; C20
altered steps. 2 first-floor sash windows to first-floor of
right-return which is unrendered; No fenestration to
left-return which is also unrendered; set-back single-storey
stucco link to adjacent house to left has blind archway.
2-storey wing to rear right.
INTERIOR: not inspected. No.10 is of similar general
appearance to Nos 6 and 8 (qv) and 12-30 (even) (qv) Albany
Terrace but differing in details.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Albany Terrace is situated at N side of
Britannia Square (qv) and forms part of one of Worcester's
important Regency developments.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26641830

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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