47 and 48 (Cumberland House) , Britannia Square
CUMBERLAND HOUSE (NO 48), 47 AND 48, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063855
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 47 and 48 (Cumberland House) , Britannia Square
- Statutory Address:
- CUMBERLAND HOUSE (NO 48), 47 AND 48, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063855
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 47 and 48 (Cumberland House) , Britannia Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- CUMBERLAND HOUSE (NO 48), 47 AND 48, 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:
- CUMBERLAND HOUSE (NO 48), 47 AND 48, 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:
- SO8465755838
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/103 (North side)
22/5/54 Nos.47 AND 48
Cumberland House (No.48)
GV II
2 semi-detached houses. c1820 with later additions and
alterations. Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof.
Re-built brick ridge stacks with oversailing detail and pots.
Single-depth, T-shaped plan. Right-house (No.48) is
double-fronted. Asymmetrically divided, left-house is 2-window
range, right-house is 4-window range (2:1:1). 3 storeys and
cellar. 6 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes plain
plinth, pilasters to front corners and flanking entrance to
right-house, frieze with inset panels; Doric-style porch to
right-house; stucco inscribed to represent ashlar. Second-floor
windows are 3/3 sashes, otherwise 6/6; all in plain reveals with
sills. 2 steps to entrance of No.48 to right of elevation,
6-panel door, bottom pair of panels flush double-beaded, upper
panels raised and fielded with bolection moulding; panelled
reveals (4 panels per side, all flush double-beaded); petal
design fanlight with very slender glazing bars. Covered passage
at left of elevation has matching 6-panel door to right-house.
Entrance to left-house is in left return, 3-panel door, bottom
pair of panels flush double-beaded, upper panel margin glazed;
radial pattern fanlight; narrow reeded architrave. Left and right
returns have similar fenestration to front (west) elevation.
INTERIORS: original features include panelled doors and shutters,
ornamental plasterwork including cornices and ceiling centres;
some fireplaces; staircases (that to right-house is open-well
with wreathed and ramped handrail, square balusters except to
ground-floor which are elaborate scroll design in cast-iron.
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:
- 488586
- 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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