Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE ALBANY TERRACE
620-1/8/12 (South side)
19/08/99 Nos.27-33 (Odd)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses. c1840 with later extensions and
alterations. Numbered and described left to right. Painted
stucco over brick; slate roof, hipped to right end. End and
party-wall stacks to front and rear roof slopes, brick with
oversailing detail and pots. Left-return is unpainted
pebbledash; right-return is painted brick.
PLAN: double-depth. 2 storeys and cellar; 8 first-floor
windows (2:2:2:2). Stucco detailing includes plinth, sills,
moulded architraves to first-floor windows, door cases. All
entrances to right with 2 windows to left. All windows 2/2
sashes with horns in plain reveals with sills. 6-panel doors,
bottom pair flush-beaded, upper 4 raised and fielded with
bolection moulding; sidelights with flush-beaded bottom panel;
full-width overlight; door surround consists of pilasters,
plain frieze and moulded cornice. 3 roll-edged steps. Nos. 27,
29 and 31 all have external louvered shutters to ground-floor
windows. Right-hand house (No.33) has no shutters but has
moulded architraves with ears. Left-return is blank.
Right-return has 2/2 window to ground-floor and 1/1 to
staircase-landing, latter has coloured glazing to margin
lights; both in plain reveals with sills and segmental brick
arches over. Each house has 2-storey brick and slate rear
service-wing with chimney stack to right; wings adjoin at
ground-floor level only. 6/6 sashes with horns and segmental
arches over to rear elevations.
INTERIORS: noted as retaining some original features including
staircases and fireplaces.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Albany Terrace is situated at N side of
Britannia Square (qv) and forms part of one of Worcester's
important Regency developments.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26641835

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)