Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE FRIAR STREET
620-1/12/247 (East side)
22/05/54 No.22

GV II

House, now shop with flats over. c1770, with later additions
and alterations including c1970s ground-floor shop front and
dormer. Red brick in Flemish bond with stucco to ground floor,
stone bands and cornice; hipped slate roof and truncated left
end brick stack with pot. 3 storeys and attic, 3 first-floor
windows. First and second floors have 6/6 near-flush sashes
with sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Second-floor band.
Frieze and cornice over second floor. Raised parapet with
frieze and copings. Flat-topped roof dormer has 3/3 sash.
Ground floor retains entrance a 4-panel door (upper panels
glazed, otherwise flush beaded, fanlight with margin-lights,
pilastered surround with scrolled corbels and open pediment.
Otherwise glazed shop front. Lead rainwater head and fallpipe.
Rear retains two tripartite windows with 6/6 between 2/2
sashes in cambered-arched opening; gabled attic dormer with
casement windows.
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 Q26669230

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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