30 And 31, St Georges Square

WORCESTER

SO8456SE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE 620-1/6/560 (North side) 22/05/54 Nos.30 AND 31

GV II

2 semi-detached houses (designed to look like single large house), now used as offices. c1830-40 with later, extensive additions and alterations. Brick with painted stucco dressings, hipped slate roof. Stacks to west end-wall and party-wall, some rebuilt and altered. Double-depth plan, central entrance now accesses Nos 30 and 31. 2-storey entrance wing set back to right-return, entrance to No.30 retained in eastern return. Symmetrical facade, 3 storeys and cellar. 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes sills, plain eaves frieze, Doric-style porch and door surround, tooled architrave to side entrance. 3 first-floor windows; all windows 8/8 sashes except second-floor which are 4/4; all in plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches. 6 renewed steps to centre entrance, 4-panel door, upper pair raised and fielded, lower pair flush-beaded, panelled reveals, fanlight with radial glazing bars. Flight of 6 stone steps to side entrance, door matches front elevation, radial pattern fanlight with margin glazing, arch soffit panelled. West-return (Barbourne Road) elevation: 4 first-floor windows, 8/8 sashes to ground- and first-floor, 4/4 to second-floor, all in plain reveals with sills. Later flat roof extension (now shops) to west obscures basement level. Interior retains shutters. HISTORICAL NOTE: These houses of similar design to Nos 28 and 29 (qv) St. George's Square. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 38,334,335).