1, Britannia Square is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1954. House. 1 related planning application.
1, Britannia Square
- WRENN ID
- frozen-glass-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Britannia Square, WR1 3JS
- OS grid reference
- SO 846 556
- Coordinates
- 52.19882, -2.22539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house built around 1820, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed with painted stucco over brick to the front and left return, and has a slate roof. The roof features brick and stuccoed stacks, some with oversailing courses and decorative pots. A timber porch and bay windows are prominent features.
The house has a double-depth plan with a central hallway and stands three storeys high with three windows on the first floor. The stucco detailing includes sills and scoring intended to mimic ashlar. The first-floor windows are 6/6 and 8/8 sash windows in plain reveals with sills. A Doric style porch shelters a five-panel door, the lower panels flush-beaded with a bolection moulding to the centre and upper panels, topped with a plain fanlight and roll-edged stone step. Flanking the entrance are rectangular bay windows with a cornice to the flat roof, containing paired 6/1 sashes and 4/1 sashes to the returns. The left-return elevation features a ground-floor canted bay with 1/1 sashes and an 8/8 sash to the first floor. The rear elevation includes an 8/8 sash window and a 4/4 staircase sash, and a two-storey flat roof extension is attached to the rear left.
The house is part of a unified group of listed buildings in Britannia Square, originally planned around a large green, similar in scale to developments at Lansdowne Crescent, Lark Hill and Rainbow Hill Terrace in Worcester.
Local climate
1, Britannia Square receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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