Nos 25 And 26 And Attached Wall To No 25

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE 620-1/8/86 (West side) 22/5/54 Nos.25 AND 26 and attached wall to No.25

GV II

2 semi-detached houses, (No.25 is 2 flats) with attached wall to left house. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof concealed behind parapet, central brick stack with oversailing detail and pots. Stucco over brick to attached walls. Double-depth plan, 2-storey wings set well back to return elevations. 2 storeys. 4 (1:2:1) first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes plinth, Doric-style pilasters to ends and centre, plain eaves band with moulded top edge. All sashes 8/8 except to side wings which are 6/6, all in plain reveals with sills. 5-panel entrance doors in return elevations, upper 3 panels raised and fielded, bottom panels flush, fanlights have radial glazing bars, 2 roll-edged stone steps to entrances. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Enclosing walls to entrance of No.25, entered via open semi-circular headed doorway in east wall. Walls approx. 3 metres high with coping.

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).