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Croft House and Attached Outbuilding and Boundary Wall

A Grade II Listed Building in Worcester, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1998 / 52°11'59"N

Longitude: -2.2287 / 2°13'43"W

OS Eastings: 384464

OS Northings: 255753

OS Grid: SO844557

Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.1C8

Mapcode Global: VH92M.BZ30

Plus Code: 9C4V5QXC+WG

Entry Name: Croft House and Attached Outbuilding and Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 8 March 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1359613

English Heritage Legacy ID: 488476

ID on this website: 101359613

Location: Britannia Square, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1

County: Worcestershire

District: Worcester

Electoral Ward/Division: Cathedral

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Worcester

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire

Church of England Parish: Worcester St George with St Mary Magdalene

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

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Description



WORCESTER

SO8455NW ALBANY TERRACE
620-1/7/14 (North side)
08/3/74 No.32
Croft House and attached
outbuilding and boundary
wall

GV II

House. c1820-40 with later alterations and additions. Painted
stucco over brick with hipped slate roof. Curvilinear parapets
to gable ends incorporate paired chimney stacks, stucco with
brick oversailing detail and pots. Brick and slate rear
service ranges. Brick boundary wall. Double-depth plan with
entrance in return (south) elevation. 2-storeys with attics
and cellars. Stephenson Road (west) elevation: 4 (2:2)
first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes sills, plinth,
pilaster with capital to each end and centre, plain frieze
with moulded top, moulded cornice and blocking course; front
and rear cornice linked by string course on return elevation
to north; stucco scored to represent ashlar. 4 ground-floor
windows are 6/6 sashes as are first-floor, all in plain
reveals with sills. 3 flat-roof dormers with side-hung
casements partially concealed behind blocking course. Entrance
in right return. Albany Terrace (south) Elevation: Single
first-floor window. Stucco detailing includes end pilasters,
frieze and cornice as west elevation, central Tuscan-style
porch. 6-panel door, bottom pair flush-beaded, upper panels
raised and fielded, overlight with central vertical glazing
bar and margin-glazing. 6/6 sash to first-floor above
entrance, 3/6 sash to second-floor in gable end parapet.
Single-storey rear service wing to north-east corner.
INTERIORS: noted as retaining original joinery features
including panelled shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 2-storey stable block with hayloft over
abuts service wing. Attached wall approx. 2 metres high by 75
metres long, runs south from stable block to form east, south,
and west boundaries to site; wall has brick coping and piers
with pyramidal stone caps; C20 replacement steel gates.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Albany Terrace is situated to the N side of
Britannia Square (qv) and forms part of one of Worcester's
important Regency developments. No.32 is similar in style,
although larger, to No.1 Stephenson Terrace (qv).


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