Description

SO 8463 OMBERSLEY CP WORCESTER ROAD (east side)

9/208 Church Villa
(Everton's Stores and
Checkett's Butchers
- Shop)

GV II

House, now two shops. Mid-C19 with mid-C20 alterations and additions.
Brick, hipped slate roof behind tall embattled parapet and with central
and end brick stacks to main roof. Two storeys with moulded eaves cornice;
1:2:1 bays, the central two bays project slightly. Gothic detailing.
Front elevation: first floor windows have gauged flat heads and are multi-
paned casements with pointed arched lights; the outer bays have 2-light
windows and the central bays have 3-light windows; at ground floor level
are two shop fronts, with plate glass windows flanking mid-C19 doorcases;
the doors are situated on the outer edges of the central bays and have
flat canopies and pilastered surrounds; the left side door is half-glazed
with pointed arched tracery; the right side door is C20 and glazed. The
building has been extended and altered to the rear. Despite alterations
to ground floor and rear, still with sufficient architectural interest
with its Gothic windows and embattled parapet; the ground floor alterations
are not irredeemable.

Listing NGR: SO8451963606

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26633443

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)