15 And 16, St Georges Square

WORCESTER

SO8456SE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE 620-1/6/552 (South side) 22/05/54 Nos.15 AND 16

GV II

2 semi-detached houses. c1830-40 with later additions and alterations. Brick with painted stucco dressings. 2-span slate roof with parapeted gables and parapet to front elevation. Pair of party-wall ridge stacks with oversailing detail and pots. PLAN: double-depth. Entrances in later flanking wings of 2-storeys; each wing of different date and style. Service wings to rear at each side. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 2 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes simple square cornice and parapet to facade and bay window to No.16. No.15 (west), main house: 8/8 sash to first-floor, 4/8 to second-floor, all in plain reveals with sills and rusticated flat arches with projecting fluted keystones. Canted bay to ground-floor under slated roof with 6/1:8/2:6/1 sashes. Flanking wing: 2 first-floor windows, 8/1 and 6/1 sashes in plain reveals and with stucco dressings to match main elevation. 6-panel door with overlight set between abbreviated canted bays, that to left has an 8/8 and a 6/6 sash, that to right has 6/6 sash and 4-panel door with overlight; the whole is contained under a lean-to ornamental-slate roof; an elliptical timber arch on engaged columns spans between the bays. No.16 (east), main house: inelegant mid-C20 canted, flat-roofed bay to first- and ground-floor with 4/4:6/6:4/4 sashes to each floor; 4/8 sash to second-floor as per No.15. Flanking wing: 3 first-floor, 1 ground-floor window, all 1/1 sashes in plain reveals with sills and eared lintels. Part-glazed panel door with plain fanlight, moulded semi-circular arch over with projecting keystone, the whole on corbels. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 38,334,335).