5, BRITANNIA SQUARE
5, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063927
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 5, BRITANNIA SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 5, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063927
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 5, BRITANNIA SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, 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:
- 5, 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:
- SO8465755619
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/75 (South side)
22/5/54 No.5
GV II
Villa. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco
over brick; hipped slate roof. Stucco stack with cornice detail
to right gable-end. 2 similar stacks to roof slopes of central
rear wing, that to right with pots. Full-height stone bay
windows. Ferrous balustrade to balcony. Double-depth T-plan with
recessed central entrance and hallway. 2 storeys. 3 first-floor
windows. Stucco detailing includes full-height pilasters flanking
entrance and to ends, first-floor sill band to each side of bays,
plain frieze, Doric-style porch and door surround to left of
facade. 2-storey, flat-roof, canted bay to each side of entrance,
ground-floor stonework is fluted with plinths and capitals;
stonework to first-floor is plain apart from carved panels below
sills depicting paired beasts and shields; all windows to bays
are 1/1 with tall bottom sashes to ground-floor only. 4 slate
steps to recessed entrance porch, square columns with incised
geometric design; pair of 6-panel external doors, all panels
raised and fielded; single pane overlight; inner pair of glazed
doors, 4-pane with margin glazing. Porch roof forms balcony
accessed by French window of similar design to porch inner-doors.
Balcony balustrade has central pair of diagonal braces flanked by
verticals. Small single storey wings set back to each return
elevation; that to left has French window, each leaf has 3 panes
with margin glazing; surround has matching pilasters to entrance
porch with entablature and pediment. Wing to right has C20
vertically boarded and part glazed garage doors beneath coped
gable of similar profile to pediment. 2-storey service range to
rear right.
HISTORICAL NOTE: 1886 Ordnance Survey map at 1:500 scale shows
canted bays to front elevation.
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:
- 488558
- 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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