Nos 28 And 30 And Attached Railings To No 30

WORCESTER

SO8455NE ALBANY TERRACE 620-1/8/13 (North side) 08/3/74 Nos.28 AND 30 with attached railings to No.30 (Formerly Listed as: ALBANY TERRACE (North side) Nos.6-30 (Even))

GV II

2 semi-detached houses and attached area railings to left, numbered right to left, described left to right. c1820-40 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick, hipped slate roof, 2 party-wall stacks, stucco to front roof slope with cornice and pots, stack to rear slope similar but brick with oversailing detail and pots. Cast-iron railings to basement light-wells of left-hand house. Left-return is unpainted brick. Double-depth plan with entrances in return elevations. 2 storeys and basement. 4 (2:2) first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes sills, plinth, corner pilasters with capitals, simple frieze with moulded upper edge and recessed rectangular panels, porch to left return, incised curvilinear panels to entrance link to right; stucco scored to represent ashlar. 4 ground-floor windows are 6/6 as first-floor; all in plain reveals with sills. Railings to light-wells have twisted posts and circular-section rails. Left return has central Tuscan-style doorcase, 2 roll-edged stone steps; 5-panel door, bottom pair flush-beaded, centre raised and fielded, top pair glazed. 8/8 sash to first-floor above. Entrance to right-hand house in set-back single-storey link with adjacent house to right, No.26 (qv) Albany Terrace; door recessed behind arch, 5-panel, upper pair glazed, lower panels flush-beaded; linking-range has curvilinear coped parapet with central ball. INTERIORS: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to light wells have twisted posts and circular-section rails. HISTORICAL NOTE: Nos 28 and 30 are of similar appearance to Nos 6 to 26 (even), Albany Terrace (qv). 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).