St Oswald's and Attached Walls
ST OSWALD'S AND ATTACHED WALLS, 53, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063860
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- St Oswald's and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- ST OSWALD'S AND ATTACHED WALLS, 53, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063860
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- St Oswald's and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST OSWALD'S AND ATTACHED WALLS, 53, BRITANNIA SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- ST OSWALD'S LODGE, 53, 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:
- ST OSWALD'S AND ATTACHED WALLS, 53, BRITANNIA SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- ST OSWALD'S LODGE, 53, 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:
- SO 84723 55692
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/108 (East side)
22/5/54 No.53
St Oswald's and attached
walls
(Formerly Listed as:
BRITANNIA SQUARE
(East side)
No.53
St Oswald's Lodge)
GV II
Villa now school, with boundary walls attached at rear and at
left. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco
over brick, coped curvilinear end-gables with stucco stacks,
further stack to rear; reddish-brown brick range at right, slate
roofs. Brick boundary walls with ashlar dressings. Double-depth
plan with central hallway; later service wing to rear and further
range to rear right. 2 storeys and attic, 3 first-floor windows.
Stucco detailing includes plinth, Tuscan pilasters to ends and
between windows surmounted by frieze, cornice and blocking
course. Shell and fan motif over ground-floor windows.
First-floor has outer 8/8 and central 6/6 sashes. Ground-floor
has tall 8/12 sashes in taller round arched reveals. Flight of 4
roll-edged steps to central Doric-style porch with 2 pairs of
columns and engaged pilasters with entablature and blocking
course; six-panel door, upper panels raised and fielded, flush
lower panels, the whole within fluted surround with fleurons to
'capitals'. Fanlight with circle and teardrop motif. Attic roof
dormer has 2/2 sash. Right-return has 6/9 sash with radial
glazing to head. 6/6 sash in gable and further 8/8 sash to
first-floor. Range at right-angles to rear right has 6/6 sash and
three-light window with flat arches of red rubbed brick; hipped
slate roof. Left return has similar pilasters to ends and between
windows; 3/6 sash to gable with further 6/6 and 8/8 sashes. Rear
has 10/15 sash and tripartite window 6/6 between 2/2.
INTERIOR noted as having original joinery including panelled
shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES:: boundary walls to Upper Tything. Walls to
NW side of garden returning to SE along Back Walk for approx 8
metres, then abutting service range and continuing to Back Walk
for approx 8 metres, then returning (with curved angle) to Upper
Tything for approx 10 metres. Double plank gates abut service
range with pilaster at left. Pedestrian entrance to rear (Upper
Tything) has 5-panel door with fanlight with decorative radial
glazing, in Gibbs-type surround, keystone with corbel bracket and
continuous dentil cornice; otherwise wall to Upper Tything
approx. 2.5 metres high and with modillion cornice. Otherwise
garden wall approx 2.5 metres high has 2 pedestrian entrances
with segmental arches. 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:
- 488591
- 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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