Albion House
ALBION HOUSE, 8 AND 9, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063929
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Albion House
- Statutory Address:
- ALBION HOUSE, 8 AND 9, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063929
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Albion House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALBION HOUSE, 8 AND 9, 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:
- ALBION HOUSE, 8 AND 9, 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:
- SO8462555595
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/77 (South side)
22/5/54 Nos.8 AND 9
Albion House
GV II
2 semi-detached houses. c1820 with later additions and
alterations. Painted stucco over brick; concealed slate roof;
large concealed party-wall stack, brick with oversailing courses
and pots. C20 ferrous railings to area. Designed to look like one
large Classical style villa. Double-depth plan with entrance in
set-back wing to left and right. 3 storeys and basement. 6
(1:4:1) first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes
full-height pilasters to ends and flanking central pair of
windows; the pilasters are plain to the ground-floor, fluted with
Corinthian capitals to the upper floors; entablature with
pediment to centre bay; coped parapet rising behind pediment is
crowned by urn finial, ball finials over end pilasters; pilasters
linked by first-floor sill band with raised gilt lettering
'Albion House'; shallow break forward to ground-floor to form
double reveals to windows; sills; moulded architrave and blank
vase balustrade to entrances. All sashes are 6/6 except
second-floor of flanking wings which are 3/6; all in plain
reveals with sills. 3 stone steps to 6-panel doors, bottom panels
flush-beaded otherwise raised and fielded with bolection
moulding; glazed sidelights over blank balustrade;
half-elliptical fanlight in circle and teardrop design. 2-storey
service range to rear right.
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:
- 488560
- 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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