Ivygate And Attached Boundary Walls And Gate Piers

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE 620-1/8/94 (North side) 22/5/54 No.37 Ivygate and attached boundary walls and gate piers(Formerly Listed as: BRITANNIA SQUARE (North side) No.37 (Ivy Gate))

GV II

Villa and attached walls and gate piers. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof. Rebuilt ridge and hip stacks with oversailing detail and pots. Brick boundary walls, stucco gate piers. Double-depth plan, central entrance to return (W) elevation. Service range to rear. 2 storey, 5 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes full-height Doric-style pilasters to ends, first-floor band, frieze with sunken panels, moulding to wide eaves, tooled window architraves, break-forward over porch. 6/6 sashes to first- and ground-floors. Left return has 3 first-floor windows; left ground-floor window is triple (6/6 sash flanked by 2/2 sashes); part-glazed 4-panel door, fanlight with radial glazing bars, Roman Doric-style porch with dentilled entablature. Rear retains 6/6 and 8/8 sashes, door has 6 flush-panels. Interior noted as having original features including panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES:: Attached boundary walls at N, W, and S, gate piers with replacement gates in S boundary. Walls abut service range for 4 metres at NE, 3 metres high with brick copings and abuts service range to NW for approx. 35 metres along W boundary, curved to angle and for approx. 23 metres to S boundary with pier, then quadrant wall, further pier, further pair of piers joined by C20 gates, quadrant wall and pier. Piers square on plan with moulded band, frieze, and stepped coping. Boundary walls frame this corner of Britannia Square although further wall to S partly rebuilt.

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 such as Lansdowne Crescent, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334).