27A AND 27B, BRITANNIA SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063883
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 27A AND 27B, BRITANNIA SQUARE
Statutory Address:: 27A AND 27B, BRITANNIA SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063883
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 27A AND 27B, BRITANNIA SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: 27A AND 27B, 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:: 27A AND 27B, 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:: SO8451855573

Details

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE 620-1/8/88 (West side) 22/5/54 Nos.27A AND 27B

GV II

2 semi-detached houses. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof; 4 stacks (2 to party wall in front and rear roof slopes, 2 end stacks), all with wide moulded cornice detail and pots. Full-height entrance wings set well back to return elevations. 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows (1:2:1). Stucco detailing includes plinth and eaves band and later C19 canted bay with cornice and blocking course. All windows 2/2 sashes excepting bay to right ground-floor which are 1/1, all in plain reveals with sills. 6-panel entrance doors, fanlights with radial glazing bars, door and fanlight to No.27B renewed.

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

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Legacy System number:: 488571
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.