Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE ALBANY TERRACE
620-1/8/10 (North side)
08/3/74 Nos.20 AND 22
and attached area
railings to No.22
(Formerly Listed as:
ALBANY TERRACE
(North side)
Nos.6-30 (Even))

GV II

2 semi-detached houses and attached area railings, numbered
right to left, described left to right. c1820-40 with later
additions and alterations. 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 similar but
brick with oversailing detail and pots. Cast-iron railings to
area of right-hand house. Double-depth plan with entrances in
return elevations. 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, porch to left return
elevation; stucco scored to represent ashlar; incised
curvilinear panels to entrance link to right-hand house. 4
ground-floor windows are 6/6 sashes as first-floor; all in
plain reveals with sills. 2 light-wells to basement windows of
left-hand house. Left-return faces onto York Place, centre bay
breaks forward, right bay splayed. 3 first-floor windows, that
to right is blank. Stucco detailing matches Albany Terrace
(south) elevation. Central Tuscan-style porch partially
recessed into break forward, 2 steps to 6-panel door, upper
panels raised and fielded, bottom pair flush-beaded; matching
panelled reveals and panelled arch soffitt; radial pattern
fanlight with segmental margin-glazing. 8/8 sash to left of
door as first-floor, blank window to right. York Place
elevation continues as single-storey brick and slate service
range with 2/2 sash and 4-panel door with segmental brick arch
over; attached approx. 2 metre high by 2 metre long boundary
wall with vertically boarded door under segmental brick arch.
Entrance to right-hand house in set-back single-storey link
with adjacent house to right, No.18 (qv) Albany Terrace;
Curvilinear coped parapet with central ball to link; 5-panel
door, all flush-beaded, recessed behind archway. Hipped roof,
3-storey extension behind entrance link with 6/6 sash window
to first-floor and 3/3 to second-floor; extension continues
around to rear elevation.
INTERIORS : not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: decorative railings to area of right-hand
house in paired heart and anthemion design as No.6 (qv) Albany
Terrace. Nos 20 & 22 are of similar appearance to Nos 6-8 (qv)
and 24-30 (qv) Albany Terrace.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Albany Terrace is situated at the 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 Q26641833

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