CROFT HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND BOUNDARY WALL

CROFT HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND BOUNDARY WALL, 32, ALBANY TERRACE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

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

User submitted image — Uploaded by Brian Mawdsley This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

Not all listed places are appearing on this map. We are investigating this issue and will have a fix in place as soon as we can. Updated: 13 February 2025.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.