Severn Lodge

WORCESTER

SO8455NW STEPHENSON TERRACE 620-1/7/594 (East side) 08/03/74 No.1 Severn Lodge

GV II

House. c1820-40 with later alterations and additions. Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof. Curvilinear parapets to gable ends incorporate paired chimney stacks, stucco with brick oversailing detail and pots. Lattice timber, zinc tented-roof verandah. Double-depth plan with entrance in return elevation. 2-storeys with attics and cellars. 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes sills, plinth, end pilasters with capitals, plain frieze with moulded top, moulded cornice and blocking course; front and rear cornice linked by string course on return elevations; stucco scored to represent ashlar. 2 ground-floor windows to left are 6/6 sashes as are first-floor, all in plain reveals with sills. Lower right is later bay with French windows and overlight, 2 steps for access, fixed windows with transom lights to returns. 2 flat-roof dormers with side-hung casements partially concealed behind blocking course. Full-width verandah to ground-floor. Louvered external shutters to ground-floor ashes. Entrance in right (south) return, 6-panel door, bottom pair flush-beaded, upper panels glazed, overlight with central vertical glazing bar and margin-glazing. C19 lean-to conservatory with heavy chamfered framing, pair of part-glazed doors with diminished stiles and some coloured glazing encloses the entrance. Brick and slate single-storey service ranges to rear left. Interiors are noted as retaining original joinery features including panelled shutters. NOTE: Similar in style, although smaller, to No. 32 Albany Terrace (qv).