Croft House and Attached Outbuilding and Boundary Wall
CROFT HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND BOUNDARY WALL, 32, ALBANY TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359613
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Croft House and Attached Outbuilding and Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- CROFT HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND BOUNDARY WALL, 32, ALBANY TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359613
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Croft House and Attached Outbuilding and Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROFT HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND BOUNDARY WALL, 32, 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:
- CROFT HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND BOUNDARY WALL, 32, 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:
- SO8446455753
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NW ALBANY TERRACE
620-1/7/14 (North side)
08/3/74 No.32
Croft House and attached
outbuilding and boundary
wall
GV II
House. c1820-40 with later alterations and additions. Painted
stucco over brick with hipped slate roof. Curvilinear parapets
to gable ends incorporate paired chimney stacks, stucco with
brick oversailing detail and pots. Brick and slate rear
service ranges. Brick boundary wall. Double-depth plan with
entrance in return (south) elevation. 2-storeys with attics
and cellars. Stephenson Road (west) elevation: 4 (2:2)
first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes sills, plinth,
pilaster with capital to each end and centre, plain frieze
with moulded top, moulded cornice and blocking course; front
and rear cornice linked by string course on return elevation
to north; stucco scored to represent ashlar. 4 ground-floor
windows are 6/6 sashes as are first-floor, all in plain
reveals with sills. 3 flat-roof dormers with side-hung
casements partially concealed behind blocking course. Entrance
in right return. Albany Terrace (south) Elevation: Single
first-floor window. Stucco detailing includes end pilasters,
frieze and cornice as west elevation, central Tuscan-style
porch. 6-panel door, bottom pair flush-beaded, upper panels
raised and fielded, overlight with central vertical glazing
bar and margin-glazing. 6/6 sash to first-floor above
entrance, 3/6 sash to second-floor in gable end parapet.
Single-storey rear service wing to north-east corner.
INTERIORS: noted as retaining original joinery features
including panelled shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 2-storey stable block with hayloft over
abuts service wing. Attached wall approx. 2 metres high by 75
metres long, runs south from stable block to form east, south,
and west boundaries to site; wall has brick coping and piers
with pyramidal stone caps; C20 replacement steel gates.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Albany Terrace is situated to the N side of
Britannia Square (qv) and forms part of one of Worcester's
important Regency developments. No.32 is similar in style,
although larger, to No.1 Stephenson Terrace (qv).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488476
- 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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