Description

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET
620-1/16/115 (North side)
08/3/74 No.32
(Formerly Listed as:
BROAD STREET
(North side)
Nos.32, 33 AND 34)

GV II

Probably house and shop, now shop with offices over. Probably
1638 for John Watts, possibly with earlier origins, and
rebuilding to facade late C18; with later additions and
alterations including c1980s ground-floor shop front.
Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with dark-red gauged brick
flat arches and stone sills and copings; concealed roof with end
brick stacks with oversailing courses and pots. 3 storeys, 3
first-floor windows. 6/6 sashes to first and second floors,
taller to first floor, and in plain reveals. Reproduction
Victorian-style shop front with central glazed entrance. Further
entrance incorporated at left, a 6-panel door with 3-pane
overlight between pilaster strips.
INTERIOR: ground floor completely renewed, otherwise not
inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: 'By the sixteenth century, Broad Street was
second only to High Street in commercial importance. On the
direct route through the city from the (Worcester) Bridge, it
contained the business premises of a number of important traders
and at least two inns'. Several houses on Broad Street are known
to have C17 and earlier origins (Nos 32, 40, 41 and 57 (qqv)).

All the listed buildings in Broad Street form a significant
group: Nos 10, 10A, 11 with the Crown Inn, 12, 18, 19, 29, 32-36
(consecutive), 40, 41, 43-49 (consecutive), 51-63 (consecutive),
69, 70 and Church of All Saints Church, (qqv). Nos 29, 32-36
(consecutive) and the Church form a further group with Nos 2-22
(consecutive) Bridge Street with No.2 Quay Street (qqv). (Hughes
P: Buildings and the Building Trade in Worcester 1540-1650: PhD
thesis: 1990-: 422-3; Hughes P: No.57 Broad Street, Worcester:
Report for Worcester City Council: 1991-).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317138

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