24 AND 26, ALBANY TERRACE
24 AND 26, ALBANY TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359610
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 24 AND 26, ALBANY TERRACE
- Statutory Address:
- 24 AND 26, ALBANY TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359610
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Mar-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 24 AND 26, ALBANY TERRACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24 AND 26, 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:
- 24 AND 26, 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:
- SO 84516 55782
Details
SO8455NE
620-1/8/11
WORCESTER,
ALBANY TERRACE (North side),
Nos. 24 AND 26
(Formerly Listed as: Nos.6-30 (Even) ALBANY TERRACE (North side))
08/3/74
GV II
2 semi-detached houses, 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. 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, stucco scored to represent
ashlar; incised curvilinear panels to extension link to left,
porch to right return elevation. 3 ground-floor windows are
6/6 sashes as first-floor, all in plain reveals with sills;
right-hand opening is 5-panel glazed door with side-lights.
Glazed light-wells to basement windows of left-hand house.
Entrance to left-hand house in single-storey link set back
between left return and adjacent house to the left, No.28 (qv)
Albany Terrace; door recessed behind archway, 5 flush-beaded
panels; linking-range has curvilinear coped parapet with
central ball; first-floor extension above link, semi-circular
headed fixed window with coloured glazing to margin-lights.
Lead flat-roof dormer with 3/3 sash. Splayed right-return
faces onto York Place, centre bay break forward, 3 first-floor
windows. Stucco detailing matches Albany Terrace (south)
elevation. Central Tuscan-style porch, partially recessed into
break forward, basket arch profile to architrave soffit; 5
roll-edged stone steps to 6-panel door, upper panels raised
and fielded, bottom pair of panels flush-beaded; matching
panelled reveals and arch soffit; fanlight. 8/8 sash to right
of entrance, 6/6 sash to left of entrance, first-floor 6/6,
all in plain reveals with sills. Small single-light
semi-circular arch-headed window to immediate left of
entrance.
INTERIORS: noted as retaining some original features including
panelled shutters and ornate plaster cornices. Note: Nos 24
and 26 are of similar appearance to Nos 6-22 (even) (qv) and
28 and 30 (qv) Albany Terrace.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Albany Terrace is situated at N side of
Britannia Square (qv) and forms part of one of Worcester's
important Regency developments.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488473
- 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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