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
List Entry Name:: 24 AND 26, ALBANY TERRACE
Statutory Address:: 24 AND 26, ALBANY TERRACE

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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.

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Legacy System number:: 488473
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.