Ivygate and Attached Boundary Walls and Gate Piers
IVYGATE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 37, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063846
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Ivygate and Attached Boundary Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- IVYGATE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 37, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063846
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Ivygate and Attached Boundary Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- IVYGATE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 37, 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:
- IVYGATE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 37, 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:
- SO8453855717
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/94 (North side)
22/5/54 No.37
Ivygate and attached
boundary walls and gate
piers(Formerly Listed as:
BRITANNIA SQUARE
(North side)
No.37
(Ivy Gate))
GV II
Villa and attached walls and gate piers. c1820 with later
additions and alterations. Stucco over brick with hipped slate
roof. Rebuilt ridge and hip stacks with oversailing detail and
pots. Brick boundary walls, stucco gate piers. Double-depth plan,
central entrance to return (W) elevation. Service range to rear.
2 storey, 5 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes
full-height Doric-style pilasters to ends, first-floor band,
frieze with sunken panels, moulding to wide eaves, tooled window
architraves, break-forward over porch. 6/6 sashes to first- and
ground-floors. Left return has 3 first-floor windows; left
ground-floor window is triple (6/6 sash flanked by 2/2 sashes);
part-glazed 4-panel door, fanlight with radial glazing bars,
Roman Doric-style porch with dentilled entablature. Rear retains
6/6 and 8/8 sashes, door has 6 flush-panels. Interior noted as
having original features including panelled shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES:: Attached boundary walls at N, W, and S,
gate piers with replacement gates in S boundary. Walls abut
service range for 4 metres at NE, 3 metres high with brick
copings and abuts service range to NW for approx. 35 metres along
W boundary, curved to angle and for approx. 23 metres to S
boundary with pier, then quadrant wall, further pier, further
pair of piers joined by C20 gates, quadrant wall and pier. Piers
square on plan with moulded band, frieze, and stepped coping.
Boundary walls frame this corner of Britannia Square although
further wall to S partly rebuilt.
All the listed buildings in Britannia Square (qv) form a unified
group, started in 1820 and planned around a large green in which
the main house is placed ('Springfield', qv). Compares with
similar although smaller developments in such as Lansdowne
Crescent, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth:
1968-1985: 334).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488577
- 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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