No 42 and 43 and Attached Wall and Piers to No 42
NO 42 AND 43 AND ATTACHED WALL AND PIERS TO NO 42, 42 AND 43, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063851
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- No 42 and 43 and Attached Wall and Piers to No 42
- Statutory Address:
- NO 42 AND 43 AND ATTACHED WALL AND PIERS TO NO 42, 42 AND 43, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063851
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- No 42 and 43 and Attached Wall and Piers to No 42
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 42 AND 43 AND ATTACHED WALL AND PIERS TO NO 42, 42 AND 43, 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:
- NO 42 AND 43 AND ATTACHED WALL AND PIERS TO NO 42, 42 AND 43, 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:
- SO8461655768
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/99 (North side)
22/5/54 Nos.42 AND 43
and attached wall and piers
to No.42
GV II
2 semi-detached houses with attached wall and piers. c1820 with
later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick with
hipped slate roof, partially renewed party and end stacks with
brick oversailing courses and pots. Stucco boundary wall to rear.
Symmetrical late Classical design with central pediment and
full-height entrance ranges set well-back to each end.
Double-depth plan. 2 storeys, 6 first-floor windows (1:4:1).
Stucco detailing includes pilaster strips to ends of main range
and to pediment over central 2 windows, frieze stepped to centre,
projecting porches have panelled pillars and entablature. 8/8
sashes with 6/6 sashes to first-floor, 8/12 sashes to
ground-floor, those to left have roll-edged stone steps. Entrance
doors have 6 fielded panels with fanlights of inverted teardrop
design, all within panelled reveals. Rear elevation retains 8/8
sashes under segmental arches.
INTERIOR noted as having original features including panelled
shutters and doors; doorcases with single-panel pilasters and
frieze with paterae; fireplaces, some with cast-iron hob-grates.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: coped wall abutting to rear return of No. 42
to left has 2 outer round-arched recesses and central wider
cambered-arch opening with planked door, all on impost band. Pair
of gate piers, square on plan; frieze and cornice with pyramidal
caps. Single-storey outshuts to rear abut boundary walls.
Boundary walls and gates extend for approx. 35 metres, 2
pedestrian entrances, 2 carriage entrances, those to right house
with piers and pyramidal caps.
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 Worcester 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:
- 488582
- 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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