Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW CORNMARKET
620-1/17/199 (South side)
05/04/71 Nos.1, 2 AND 3
(Formerly Listed as:
CORNMARKET
No.1)
(Formerly Listed as:
CORNMARKET
No.2)
(Formerly Listed as:
CORNMARKET
No.3)

GV II

3 houses, now 3 shops. Numbered right to left, described left
to right. c1700 with later additions and alterations including
mid C19 shop fronts. Painted brick, stuccoed at right with
plain tile roof, hipped at left. 2 storeys, 4:3:3 first-floor
windows. First floor: first opening is blind, then 6/6 flush
sashes, those to right house have keystones, otherwise with
cambered arches. 3-course band over (stuccoed at right)
modillion cornice remains at left. Ground floor: shop front at
left has panelled apron; central entrance, part-glazed double
doors with overlight; 2 plate-glass windows, end pilasters
with pairs of corbel brackets and acroteria, continuous
fascia. To centre a shop front with renewed plinth and 2
Victorian stanchions to canted angles into part-glazed
double-doors with overlight; outer corbels with acroteria and
frieze with cornice, further pilaster at left. To right a
later C19 shop front has plinth with grill; 6-pane windows,
canted into part-glazed door with overlight and stanchions to
angle, end pilasters and frieze. Attics: to left a pair of 3/3
sashes then 4 dormers with 6-pane fixed lights. Left return: 8
first-floor windows, 3-course first-floor band; first floor
has 2 blind openings, 6/6 sash, blind opening and 3 blocked
openings, all with cambered arches; 3-course frieze. Ground
floor has plinth; 2 windows with panelled shutters, 2 blind
windows, 1 with inserted small light, 2 blocked windows; the 5
windows to left have cambered arches.
INTERIOR: No.3 retains original joinery including boxed beams,
6-panel doors, original dogleg staircase to second floor has
short rod-on-bobbin balusters and closed string. Exposed
purlins and wind braces to attic. Small cast-iron fireplace to
first floor. Ground floor at rear has 2 C19 alcoves, one with
mock-books to cupboard doors. No.1 has
cast-iron range; chamfered beams; 6/6 sash now in internal
wall; C19 cast-iron fireplace and grate; moulded cornices and
boxed beams to first-floor front; from first to second floors
a closed string dogleg staircase with splat balusters and
moulded handrail; attic retains exposed purlins and wide
floorboards.
All the listed buildings in Cornmarket form a good group with
the listed buildings in Mealcheapen Street; No.3 Cornmarket
occupies an important corner site with return to New Street
and forms a good group with listed buildings there.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669180

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Recommended Books

• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)