12 And 13, St Georges Square

WORCESTER

SO8456SE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE 620-1/6/550 (South side) 22/05/54 Nos.12 AND 13

GV II

2 semi-detached houses. c1830-40 with later additions and alterations. Brick with painted stucco dressings, hipped slate roof, party-wall stack with oversailing detail and pots. PLAN: double-depth, later flanking entrance-wings of 2-storeys under parapeted roof set back from main facade. 2-storey service wings to rear. EXTERIOR: 3-storeys and cellar. 4 (1:2:1) first-floor windows. Pilaster strips to ends and centre with linking string course at eaves in matching brick. 8/12 sashes to first-floor, 4/8 to second-floor and 8/16 sash window/door to ground-floor. First-floor windows to wings are 9/6 with semi-circular head. All in plain reveals with rusticated arches, either semi-circular or flat with projecting keystones; all with sills except ground-floor which are accessed by 2 roll-edged steps. Double entrance doors, each of 2 panels, upper glazed, lower raised and fielded; fanlight with radial glazing bars; all under rusticated arch with projecting fluted and capped keystone. INTERIOR: not inspected. NOTE: Of similar design to Nos. 9 and 10 and 21 and 22 (qv) St. George's Square. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 38,334,335).