41, Britannia Square

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).