Worcester Arms Public House

The Worcester Arms public house is part of a row of terraced houses built around 1800 to 1820 as part of the Portman Estate development. The building is constructed of stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor, topped with slate roofs. It is four storeys high, with basements and dormered mansards; numbers 16 and 18 are five storeys. The building is two windows wide, with entrances to the right, except for number 22 and the Worcester Arms itself, which has an entrance on the George Street return. Numbers 12 and 16 have square-headed doorways with fanlights set within stucco architraves; number 16 features half pilasters supporting an architrave cornice. Numbers 14, 18, 20, and 22 have semicircular arched doorways with architraves, and enriched Coade imposts, and fanlights; number 14 features Ionic half pilasters supporting an entablature with a decorated frieze and central cartouche. The upper floors feature recessed sash windows with flat, gauged arches. The George Street return of the Worcester Arms has an altered public house front under an entablature fascia. A stucco plat band runs above the ground floor, and a modillion cornice and balustraded parapet cap the building (number 16 has a bracketed cornice and blocking course, and number 18 only a blocking course). Original geometrical pattern cast iron balconies are present on the first floor of numbers 12 and 22, with Nos 12 and 22 retaining delicate iron balusters. Cast iron area railings with urn finials are also visible (number 12’s railings are later 19th century). The row forms part of one of the most complete sequences of Georgian terraced houses in London.