Description

WORCESTER

SO8454NE FISH STREET
620-1/16/235 (South side)
22/05/54 No.21
Tudor Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
FISH STREET
No.21)

GV II

House. c1620 for Humphrey Tyrer with later additions and
alterations including those c1890s when the house was
refenestrated and with C20 range at rear left. Timber frame
with brick nogging at ground floor to front facade and to left
return, otherwise plaster infill and plain tile roof; 2 right
stacks, one renewed, that to rear in C18 brick. Timber
framing: close studding to front and box frames to left
return.
PLAN: gable end to street; One room wide, 2 rooms deep with
corner fireplaces and staircase between. 2 storeys, with attic
to gable, 2 first-floor windows. Sill beam, main end posts to
left and right with scrolled brackets supporting bressumer to
jetty at first floor. Entrance to left a 6-long-panel studded
door and renewed overlight; to right an inserted 9-pane
casement window. First floor has 8-pane casement windows.
Jetty to attic has ovolo-moulded bressumer beam on scrolled
brackets; 6-pane casement window to attic. Ends of two purlins
project, one to each side.
INTERIOR: open newel staircase to full height has 2
rod-on-vase balusters per tread, those balusters to attic are
thicker turned rods and may be original; shaped handrail.
Exposed timber-framing to walls throughout. Attic has exposed,
massive chamfered purlins and wall plate. First floor has
three 2-raised-and-fielded-panel doors with metal latches,
that to closet has wooden lock; cross beam to front room and
ceiling with imple 'knuckle' moulding in plaster. Wooden
partition wall with splat balustrade at top to landing closet.
Rear first-floor bedroom has corner fireplace with simple
ovolo-moulded shelf and cupboards to either side with panelled
doors and butterfly- and S-hinges. Ground floor: corner
fireplaces with renewed surrounds, chimney stack to rear room
said to have steps within; exposed rough-hewn timber-framing.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Hughes notes that the staircase and divided
hearth stack were inserted before the 1666 Hearth tax.
Nos 3-9 (odd), and Nos 21 and 23, Fish Street (qqv) form a
group.
The timber-framed houses, Nos 9 and 21, frame the view of
Worcester Cathedral (qv) from Fish Street.
(Hughes, P.M.: Worcester: Buildings and the Building Trade,
1540-1650: Birmingham University PhD: 1990-: 167).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669219

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