Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE
620-1/8/98 (North side)
22/5/54 No.41
(Formerly Listed as:
BRITANNIA SQUARE
(North side)
No.41
(Mynd Grange))

GV II

Villa. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco
over brick, brick to returns. Hipped slate roof; central stack
with oversailing detail and pots. Lead parapet gutter to facade.
Wrought-iron balcony. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys on basement, 4
first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes full-height
Doric-style pilaster strips to ends and centre, frieze and
first-floor band. First-floor has 6/6 sashes with louvered
shutters, ground-floor has tall 6-pane casement windows with
fanlights, all in plain reveals with sills. Renewed openings to
basement. Entrance to right-return, door has 6 fielded panels;
fanlight with teardrop motif; panelled reveals; flight of renewed
steps to Doric-style porch with entablature. Ground-floor has
continuous balcony with scrolled lozenge and circle-motif
balustrade, continues to side of porch. Full-height service range
to rear, partially rebuilt and with further extension, 3/6 and
6/6 sashes.
INTERIOR: Noted as having original features including panelled
shutters.

All the listed buildings in Britannia Square (qv) form a unified
group, started in 1820 and planned around a large green in which
the main house is placed ('Springfield', qv). Compares with
similar although smaller developments in Worcester such as
Lansdowne Crescent, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth:
1968-1985: 334).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317121

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Recommended Books

• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House