40, Britannia Square

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE 620-1/8/97 (North side) 22/5/54 No.40

GV II

House. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick with concealed roof. Renewed end stacks with oversailing detail and pots. PLAN: Rear central stair hall. 3 storeys. 4 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes full-height Doric-style pilasters to ends, continuous first-floor sill band, frieze, cornice and blocking course. 6/6 sashes except for second-floor which are 3/6, all in plain reveals with sills. Louvered shutters with catches to first-floor. Entrance to right-return, replacement part-glazed door with overlight, Doric-style porch. 2-storey service range to rear. Rear retains 9/6,6/6, 8/8 and 3/3 sashes. INTERIOR: retains some original joinery including narrow open-well staircase with stick balusters and wreathed handrail; 6-panel doors with moulded architraves. Some original decorative plasterwork including cornices, that to hall has modillions with anthemion design. Cellar said to retain wine stillages.

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).