17, St Georges Square

WORCESTER

SO8456SE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE 620-1/6/553 (South side) 22/05/54 No.17

GV II

House, abutting No.18. c1830-40 with later additions and alterations. Brick with symmetrical painted-stucco facade. Slate roof with coped parapets to gables and N elevation. 2 rear-wall stacks with oversailing details and pots. Timber trellis porch with metal tented-roof. PLAN: double-depth, central hallway plan, tapers to accommodate corner site. Single-storey range to rear extended to 2 storeys late C20. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes frieze, cornice, blocking course and coping; continuous sill band to first-floor windows; four plain pilasters, pair to ends are full-height, pair to central bay extend from sill band to frieze. 6/6 sashes to first-floor and right ground-floor, 3/3 sashes to second-floor, except centre which is blind, all in plain reveals with sills. Later bay to left ground-floor with clay-tiled hipped roof, 2/1:4/1:2/1 sashes with transomed and fixed lights above. 2 roll edged steps to 4-panel entrance door, top panels raised and fielded, bottom pair flush-beaded, panelled reveals, radial pattern fanlight, fluted architrave. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 38,334,335).