Worcester Arms, London

Grade II listed, Historic England ref 1212795. Row of terraced houses terminating in corner public house. c.1800-20 Portman Estate development. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floor; slate roofs. 4 storeys and basements with dormered mansards, Nos 16 and 18 of 5 storeys. 2-window wide fronts. Entrances to right except for No 22 and Worcester Arms which has entrance on George Street return; Nos 12 and 16 have square-headed doorways and fanlights in stucco architraves, No 16 with half pilasters carrying architrave cornice; Nos 14, 18, 20 and 22 have semicircular arched doorways and architraves, enriched Coade imposts, and fanlights; No 14 with Ionic half pilasters carrying entablature with decorated frieze and central cartouche. Recessed sash windows, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. George Street return of Worcester Arms has altered public house front under entablature fascia. Stucco plat band over ground floor; modillion cornice and balustraded parapet (except No 16 with bracke- ted cornice and blocking course and No 18 with blocking course only). Original geometrical pattern cast iron balconies to 1st floor, Nos 12 and 22 with balco- nettes. Cast iron area railings with urn finials (No 12 later C19 railings). Part of one of the most extensive and intact sequences of Georgian terraced houses in London.