28 And 29, St Georges Square

WORCESTER

SO8456SE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE 620-1/6/559 (North side) 22/05/54 Nos.28 AND 29

GV II

2 semi-detached houses (designed to look like single large house). c1830-40 with later additions and alterations. Brick with painted stucco dressings, hipped slate roof, 2 west end-wall and 2 party-wall ridge stacks with oversailing details and pots. Double-depth plan, central entrance gives access to No.29, No.28 accessed from early C20 2-storey wing with hipped slate roof set back to right return. Single-storey service ranges to rear. Symmetrical facade, 3 storeys and cellar. 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes Tuscan-style porch and tooled architrave with semi-circular head to central doorway; pilastered and broken pedimented doorcase to east-wing. Centre first-floor is French window with margin-glazing, otherwise 8/8 sashes to main facade except second-floor which are 4/4; all in plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches. Flight of 4 steps to 4-panel central entrance door, upper panels glazed, lower pair flush-beaded; panelled reveals; fanlight in petal design. East wing has 2 first-floor windows, 1/1 sashes. Flight of 5 steps to 6-panel entrance door, top pair raised and fielded, centre pair glazed and bottom panels flush-beaded. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Central first-floor window has individual balcony with cast-iron balusters in scrolled-heart design similar to those used at No.23 (qv) St. George's Square. HISTORICAL NOTE: These houses of similar design to Nos 30 and 31 (qv) St. George's Square. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 38,334,335).