9 And 10, St Georges Square

WORCESTER

SO8456SE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE 620-1/6/548 (South side) 22/05/54 Nos.9 AND 10

GV II

2 semi-detached houses. c1830-40 with later additions and alterations. Brick with painted-stucco dressings, hipped slate roof, party-wall stack with oversailing detail and pots to front and rear roof slopes. PLAN: double-depth, later flanking entrance-wings of 2 storeys under parapeted roof set back from main facade. Single-storey rear service wings to No.9, 2 storey to No.10. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 4 (1:2:1) first-floor windows. Pilaster strips to ends and centre with linking string course at eaves in matching brick. 6/9 sashes to first-floor of main house, 6/6 to wings, 6/6 sashes to second-floor, 8/16 to ground-floor, all in plain reveals; rusticated flat arches with projecting keystone, all with sills except ground floor which are accessed by 2 roll-edged steps; C20 part-glazed door entrance door, rectilinear glazing bar pattern to fanlight, all within Gibbs type surround, 2 roll-edged steps. INTERIOR: noted as having original features including staircase and other joinery. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: louvered shutters to ground floor of No.9. HISTORICAL NOTE: Of similar design to Nos 12 and 13 and 21 and 22 (qv) St. George's Square. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 38,334,335).