Description

SO8455SE
620-1/12/245

WORCESTER
FOREGATE STREET (East side)
No.15

(Formerly listed under FRIAR STREET)

08/3/74

GV
II
House, now building society and offices. Late C18 with later additions and alterations including those c1970s to ground-floor. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with stucco decoration and stucco over brick to left return; timber eaves; plain tile, double pitch roof and end stacks, that to left in pinkish-brown brick, that to left is stuccoed with cornice.

Three storeys, four first-floor windows. Quoins to angles. 6/1 windows throughout with flat arches of gauged brick and stucco keystones, plain reveals and sills. Plain eaves. Ground floor mainly renewed, with plate-glass window; at left a fluted Doric column in antis. Left return to Pierpoint Street: ground floor has horizontal rustication. Entrance to left: six-raised-and-fielded-panel double doors with overlight. 6/6 sash. First-floor sill band with two 6/1 sashes and 6/6 round-arched staircase sash with gothic glazing bars to head. Second floor has two 6/6 sashes with sills. All windows in plain reveals.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: during the C18 Foregate Street was known as 'the mall' and Tymbs' Worcester Guide of 1802 notes, 'the Foregate Street itself, by being well paved and sufficiently broad to admit a full circulation of air seems to be generally resorted to as a fashionable promenade.' The Shire Hall, Statue of Queen Victoria, City Museum and Library and Nos 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, Nos 33-46 (consecutive) and No.49, Foregate Street (qqv) form a good group.

(Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead D: Urban Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian Worcester: 1989: 12; Tymbs: Worcester Guide: Worcester: 1802-: 60).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669228

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair