18 AND 19, BRITANNIA SQUARE
18 AND 19, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063936
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 19, BRITANNIA SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 18 AND 19, BRITANNIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063936
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 19, BRITANNIA SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18 AND 19, 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:
- 18 AND 19, 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:
- SO8457255554
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/81 (South side)
22/5/54 Nos.18 AND 19
GV II
2 semi-detached houses. c1820 with later additions and
alterations. Painted stucco over brick; hipped slate roof, party
wall stacks to front and rear roof slopes, both with oversailing
courses and pots, front stack stuccoed. Timber doorcase and
canopy to right-hand house. Double-depth plan with entrances in
return elevations. 3 storey. 2 first-floor windows. Stucco
detailing includes plinth, sills, and inscribed lines to
represent ashlar; castellated single-storey screen walls set back
to left and right returns pierced by open doorway flanked by
blind windows with sills, all with pointed arches; similarly
arched integral boot scrapers to either side of opening. Sashes
are 8/8 except second-floor which are 4/8 to left-hand house and
4/4 to right; all in plain reveals with sills. 2-storey wing with
parapeted flat-roof to rear of left return, 5-panel door flanked
by 4/4 sashes 3-pane overlight; 8/8 sash to first-floor right
under segmental brick arch; single light casement to left. Wing
to right-hand house is single-storey with small C20 4-pane
window; door retained in its original position in return wall is
similarly configured 5-panel, bottom pair flush-beaded, middle
pair and top panel glazed with leaded-lights; fluted door case
and cantilevered canopy with dentils.
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:
- 488564
- 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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