North Lodge

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE 620-1/8/101 (North side) 22/5/54 No.45 North Lodge

GV II

Detached house. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick with hipped slate roof. Stone sills. Stucco stacks to rear wall and ridge with brick oversailing detail and pots. Double-fronted, single-depth plan. Principal and entrance facade is of asymmetric design and faces east. 2 storeys and cellar. 4 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes plain plinth and frieze; scored in imitation of ashlar. Windows are all 6/6 sashes in plain reveals with sills; to right of entrance is full-height bow, 2 windows per floor are curved on plan. Single-window range to right of bow. 3 roll-edged steps to 5-panel entrance door, single bottom panel is flush double-beaded, upper pairs of panels are raised and fielded with bolection mouldings; panelled reveals, double flush-beaded; radial pattern fanlight; timber doorcase with pilasters, dentilled frieze and cornice. Left return facing into the Square has two 6/6 sashes to each floor. Right-return is brick with 2 blind-windows to first-floor. INTERIOR Noted as retaining original features including staircase and panelled doors. HISTORICAL NOTE: Single-window range to right of bow at N. end of house may be a later addition but map evidence suggests it was there in 1886.

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