Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE ALBANY TERRACE
620-1/8/8 (North side)
08/3/74 Nos.12 AND 14
(Formerly Listed as:
ALBANY TERRACE
(North side)
Nos.6-30 (Even))

GV II

2 semi-detached houses, numbered right to left, described left
to right. c1820-40 with later additions and alterations.

MATERIALS: painted stucco over brick, hipped slate roof. 2
party-wall stacks, stucco to front roof slope with cornice and
pots; stack to rear roof slope in brick with oversailing
detail and pots, extended in height. Right-return is painted
brick. Replacement cast-iron area railings to right.
PLAN: double-depth with entrances in return elevations.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. 4 (2:2) first-floor windows.
Stucco detailing includes sills, plinth, corner pilasters with
capitals, simple frieze with moulded upper edge and recessed
rectangular panels; stucco scored to represent ashlar; incised
curvilinear panels to entrance link to left. 4 ground-floor
windows are 6/6 sashes as first-floor; all in plain reveals
with sills. Entrance to left-hand house in single-storey link
set back between left return and adjacent house to the left;
5-panel door, bottom pair flush-beaded, centre and upper
panels raised and fielded; extra-height radial pattern
fanlight. Curvilinear coped parapet to link. 2-storey
extension further to rear, behind link. Entrance to right-hand
house in set-back single-storey link with adjacent house to
right, No.10 (qv) Albany Terrace; entrance door as left-hand
house. Extra-height radial pattern fanlight with margin
glazing. Flat-roof first-floor extension added above entrance
arch with 6/6 sash window. 2 storey wing to rear left and
right.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Albany Terrace is situated at N side of
Britannia Square (qv) and forms part of one of Worcester's
important Regency developments. Nos 12 and 14 are of similar
appearance to Nos 6-10 (even) and 16-30 (even) (qv) Albany
Terrace.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26641831

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