6 and 7, Britannia Square is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1954. Semi-detached houses. 2 related planning applications.
6 and 7, Britannia Square
- WRENN ID
- narrow-paling-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worcester
- Constituency
- Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1954
- Type
- Semi-detached houses
- Address
- 6 and 7, Britannia Square, WR1 3DG
- OS grid reference
- SO 846 556
- Coordinates
- 52.19848, -2.22612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
6 and 7 Britannia Square are two semi-detached houses built around 1820, with later additions and alterations. They are constructed of painted stucco over brick and feature a slate roof with coped curvilinear parapeted gables. The houses have end, party wall, and rear brick stacks, all with oversailing details, except for the center stack which has a string course at about half-height, all topped with pots. The buildings are arranged in a double-depth T-plan with entrances on the return elevations. They rise to three storeys with a cellar and have four first-floor windows arranged in a 2:2 pattern.
Architectural details include stucco sills and lining that mimic ashlar on the main elevation. The entrance porches feature a plinth, a moulded architrave to a semi-circular arch, recessed panels in the spandrels, a cornice, and a curvilinear coped parapet topped with a ball finial. The first-floor windows are 8/8 sashes, the second-floor windows are 4/4, and the ground-floor windows are 8/12, all set in plain reveals with sills. The single-storey entrance porches are set back on the return elevations. The door to the left-hand house, located within an archway, is a six-panel door with the bottom pair flush-beaded and the rest raised and fielded, though the fanlight has been altered. The right-hand porch has an open archway with the door located in the return elevation of the main house; this door is half-glazed with four panes and has the bottom pair of panels flush-beaded. The porch features a stone-flagged floor, and the rear and side walls have blind arched recesses.
All the listed buildings in Britannia Square form a cohesive group, initiated in 1820 and designed around a large green where the main house, 'Springfield', is situated. This development is comparable to similar, albeit smaller, projects in Worcester, such as Lansdowne Crescent, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill Terrace.
Local climate
6 and 7, Britannia Square receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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