52 and 52A, Britannia Square
HOLLY LODGE AND ATTACHED WALL TO REAR, 52 AND 52A, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063859
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 52 and 52A, Britannia Square
- Statutory Address:
- HOLLY LODGE AND ATTACHED WALL TO REAR, 52 AND 52A, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063859
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 52 and 52A, Britannia Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLLY LODGE AND ATTACHED WALL TO REAR, 52 AND 52A, 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:
- HOLLY LODGE AND ATTACHED WALL TO REAR, 52 AND 52A, 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:
- SO8471355716
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/107 (East side)
22/5/54 Nos.52 AND 52A
Holly Lodge and attached
wall to rear
GV II
Villa, now 2 dwellings, with boundary walls adjoining to rear.
c1820 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over
brick with hipped slate roof, 4 stacks (2+2), front left-end and
off-centre right internal rebuilt. Cast-iron balcony. Brick
garden wall. Double-depth plan with central hallway. 2 storeys on
basement at right. 5 first-floor windows with single-storey
entrance bay at right. Central and end break forwards. Stucco
detailing: end break forwards have full height pilaster strips to
either side of windows the cornices of which are incorporated
into a continuous crowning cornice; blocking course raised over
pilasters with incised leaf motif and to centre raised and
fielded panel, fan motif and incised upshot with scrolls to
sides. Windows to break forwards have tooled architraves, those
to ground-floor have pulvinated frieze and cornices; interrupted
moulded first-floor band. Centre first-floor has 6-pane French
window with Gothic glazing to fanlight and margin lights
otherwise 6/6 sashes, taller to ground-floor, all windows in
plain reveals with sills. Hinged louvred shutters to all windows
with original catches. Central entrance has distyle Doric porch
with engaged pilasters, frieze has triglyphs and rams heads,
cornice and blocking course. Steps to entrance, 5-panel door,
upper panels raised and fielded, lower panel flush; fanlight with
circle and teardrop glazing bars; panelled reveals, surround of
alternate plain and fluted voussoirs. Balcony over porch has
ornate balusters with scrolled anthemion finials. C20 door and
French windows to basement. Further entrance to right has C20
panelled door with overlight; cornice and blocking course.
2-storey service range at rear right has 6/6 sashes. Rear retains
arched staircase window with radial glazing to head and 6/6/
sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES:: kitchen garden wall abuts outshut to rear
with elliptical arched pedestrian entrance with flush 6 panel
door. Wall approximately 2.5 metres high and continues for
approx. 5 metres. Rear walls to Nos 49-53 (qv) fronting Back Walk
form a continuous original feature of the streetscape.
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:
- 488590
- 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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