Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE ALBANY TERRACE
620-1/8/9 (North side)
08/3/74 Nos.16 AND 18
(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. Left and right returns are brick. Replacement
cast-iron area railings at left.
PLAN: double-depth plan 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. C20 railings to area of left-hand house, access
steps. 2 individual light-wells to basement windows of
right-hand house. 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; divided overlight and radial
pattern fanlight with segmental margin-glazing. Link range has
curvilinear coped parapet with central ball. Entrance to
right-hand house in set-back single-storey link with adjacent
house to right, No.14 (qv) Albany Terrace; entrance door as
left-hand house; extra-height radial pattern fanlight with
segmental margin-glazing. 2-storey wings to rear.
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 16 and 18 are of similar
appearance to Nos 6-14 (even) and 20-30 (even) Albany Terrace
(qv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26641832

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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