Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW CORNMARKET
620-1/17/202 (East side)
08/3/74 No.10

GV II

House, now shop with offices over. c1760 with later additions
and alterations including later additions and alterations
including shop front of c1900 with late C20 attic to rear.
Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with painted and stuccoed
quoins and lintels with stone sills, cornice and copings;
concealed roof. 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Stucco
details include quoins to ends through first and second
floors; splayed and peaked lintels with sunk panels to first-
and second-floor windows. 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with
sills, taller to first floor, the second window to both floors
is blind. Moulded crowning cornice and coped parapet with end
and entral pilasters. Ground floor: shop frontage has banded
and panelled pilasters, the upper panels fluted, with ornate
scrolled caps; off-centre left and right entrances, that to
left has left a part-glazed door with overlight with
round-arched glazing-bars; that to right a 5-panel door, the
upper panels round-arched, and overlight, keystone to frieze.
Replacement windows project in rectangular bays with canted
overlights with similar round-arched glazing bars and
keystones to frieze. Left return has ground-floor shop front,
angled on plan: renewed plinth and glazing with end pilaster
and pilasters to renewed, part-glazed door; frieze and
cornice. Rear retains 8/8 sash.
INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork including
closed-string, dogleg staircase with rod-on-vase balusters
from first floor, those to upper landing with square knops,
and moulded handrail.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669182

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)