Description

WORCESTER

SO8454NE BROAD STREET
620-1/16/121 (South side)
22/5/54 Nos.46 AND 47

GV II

2 houses probably originally with shops, now shops with flats.
Numbered right to left, described left to right. Probably c1750
with later additions and alterations including ground-floor shop
front c1980s. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with stone
sills and keystones; stuccoed to ground floor at left; concealed
roof and massive brick stack at left with oversailing pots. 4
storeys, 4 first-floor windows. First and second floors have 6/6
sashes, third floor has 3/3 sashes, all in flush frames and sith
sills and flat arches of gauged brick with central keystones;
keystones have incised motif to ground and third floors and
flutes to second floor, those to first and second floors have
cornices. Ground floor retains horizontal rustication at left,
left entrance a part-glazed door with lower raised and flush
panel in plain reveals and with tooled architrave. Plate glass
windows with timber mullion and transom. Shop front to right has
end pilasters and plate-glass window on plinth and with fascia.
INTERIOR 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 (qv).
It contained the business premises of a number of important
traders and at least two inns'. Several houses in 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, (qqv). (Hughes P: No.57 Broad
Street, Worcester: Report for Worcester City Council: 1991-).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317144

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)