30 AND 31, ST GEORGES SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390095
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 30 AND 31, ST GEORGES SQUARE
Statutory Address:: 30 AND 31, ST GEORGES SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390095
Date first listed:: 22-May-1954
List Entry Name:: 30 AND 31, ST GEORGES SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: 30 AND 31, ST GEORGES SQUARE

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:: 30 AND 31, ST GEORGES SQUARE

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 84618 56219

Details

WORCESTER

SO8456SE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE 620-1/6/560 (North side) 22/05/54 Nos.30 AND 31

GV II

2 semi-detached houses (designed to look like single large house), now used as offices. c1830-40 with later, extensive additions and alterations. Brick with painted stucco dressings, hipped slate roof. Stacks to west end-wall and party-wall, some rebuilt and altered. Double-depth plan, central entrance now accesses Nos 30 and 31. 2-storey entrance wing set back to right-return, entrance to No.30 retained in eastern return. Symmetrical facade, 3 storeys and cellar. 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes sills, plain eaves frieze, Doric-style porch and door surround, tooled architrave to side entrance. 3 first-floor windows; all windows 8/8 sashes except second-floor which are 4/4; all in plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches. 6 renewed steps to centre entrance, 4-panel door, upper pair raised and fielded, lower pair flush-beaded, panelled reveals, fanlight with radial glazing bars. Flight of 6 stone steps to side entrance, door matches front elevation, radial pattern fanlight with margin glazing, arch soffit panelled. West-return (Barbourne Road) elevation: 4 first-floor windows, 8/8 sashes to ground- and first-floor, 4/4 to second-floor, all in plain reveals with sills. Later flat roof extension (now shops) to west obscures basement level. Interior retains shutters. HISTORICAL NOTE: These houses of similar design to Nos 28 and 29 (qv) St. George's Square. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 38,334,335).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 489065
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 38 334-5

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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.