47 AND 48 (CUMBERLAND HOUSE), BRITANNIA SQUARE

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:: CUMBERLAND HOUSE (NO 48), 47 AND 48, BRITANNIA SQUARE

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.