31-33, BRITANNIA SQUARE
31-33, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063843
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 31-33, BRITANNIA SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 31-33, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063843
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 31-33, BRITANNIA SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31-33, BRITANNIA SQUARE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 31-33, BRITANNIA SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84499 55634
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/91 (West side)
22/5/54 Nos.31, 32 AND 33
GV II
Terrace of 3 houses. c1820 with later additions and alterations.
Painted stucco over brick; hipped slate roof, 4 partially rebuilt
stacks with brick oversailing detail and pots. Timber porches.
Double-depth plan. Terrace designed to look like single large
house. 3 storeys and cellar. 5 first-floor windows (1:3:1).
Stucco detailing includes plinth; full-height pilasters to ends
and to left and right of 3 middle windows; entrance and windows
above in shallow break-forward; panelled frieze. Second-floor has
3/3 sashes, otherwise 6/6, all in plain reveals with sills.
Entrances to centre and returns, doors all have 6-panels, bottom
pair flush-beaded, upper panels raised and fielded to centre door
only otherwise glazed; fanlight with radial glazing bars,
panelled reveals, Doric-style porches. Return elevations have 3
first-floor windows. Interior noted as retaining some original
features including open-well staircases with wreathed handrail;
panelled shutters and doors, architraves; plaster cornices;
fireplaces, some with cast-iron hob-grates.
All the listed buildings in Britannia Square (qv) form a unified
group, started in 1820 and planned round a large green in which
the main house is placed ('Springfield', qv). Compares with
similar although smaller developments in Worcester such as
Lansdowne Crescent, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth:
1968-1985: 334). Worcester such as Lansdowne Crescent, Lark Hill,
and Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488574
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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