Nos 20 and 22 and Attached Area Railings to No 22
NOS 20 AND 22 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO NO 22, 20 ANS 22, ALBANY TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359609
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 20 and 22 and Attached Area Railings to No 22
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 20 AND 22 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO NO 22, 20 ANS 22, ALBANY TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359609
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 20 and 22 and Attached Area Railings to No 22
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 20 AND 22 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO NO 22, 20 ANS 22, ALBANY TERRACE
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:
- NOS 20 AND 22 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO NO 22, 20 ANS 22, ALBANY TERRACE
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:
- SO8453955796
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE ALBANY TERRACE
620-1/8/10 (North side)
08/3/74 Nos.20 AND 22
and attached area
railings to No.22
(Formerly Listed as:
ALBANY TERRACE
(North side)
Nos.6-30 (Even))
GV II
2 semi-detached houses and attached area railings, numbered
right to left, described left to right. c1820-40 with later
additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick, hipped
slate roof. 2 party-wall stacks, stucco to front roof slope
with cornice and pots, stack to rear roof slope similar but
brick with oversailing detail and pots. Cast-iron railings to
area of right-hand house. Double-depth plan with entrances in
return elevations. 2 storeys and basement. 4 (2:2) first-floor
windows. Stucco detailing includes sills, plinth, corner
pilasters with capitals, simple frieze with moulded upper edge
and recessed rectangular panels, porch to left return
elevation; stucco scored to represent ashlar; incised
curvilinear panels to entrance link to right-hand house. 4
ground-floor windows are 6/6 sashes as first-floor; all in
plain reveals with sills. 2 light-wells to basement windows of
left-hand house. Left-return faces onto York Place, centre bay
breaks forward, right bay splayed. 3 first-floor windows, that
to right is blank. Stucco detailing matches Albany Terrace
(south) elevation. Central Tuscan-style porch partially
recessed into break forward, 2 steps to 6-panel door, upper
panels raised and fielded, bottom pair flush-beaded; matching
panelled reveals and panelled arch soffitt; radial pattern
fanlight with segmental margin-glazing. 8/8 sash to left of
door as first-floor, blank window to right. York Place
elevation continues as single-storey brick and slate service
range with 2/2 sash and 4-panel door with segmental brick arch
over; attached approx. 2 metre high by 2 metre long boundary
wall with vertically boarded door under segmental brick arch.
Entrance to right-hand house in set-back single-storey link
with adjacent house to right, No.18 (qv) Albany Terrace;
Curvilinear coped parapet with central ball to link; 5-panel
door, all flush-beaded, recessed behind archway. Hipped roof,
3-storey extension behind entrance link with 6/6 sash window
to first-floor and 3/3 to second-floor; extension continues
around to rear elevation.
INTERIORS : not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: decorative railings to area of right-hand
house in paired heart and anthemion design as No.6 (qv) Albany
Terrace. Nos 20 & 22 are of similar appearance to Nos 6-8 (qv)
and 24-30 (qv) Albany Terrace.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Albany Terrace is situated at the N side of
Britannia Square (qv) and forms part of one of Worcester's
important Regency developments.
(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:
- 488472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 334
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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