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24, Foregate Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Worcester, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1961 / 52°11'46"N

Longitude: -2.2223 / 2°13'20"W

OS Eastings: 384904

OS Northings: 255346

OS Grid: SO849553

Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.8Z4

Mapcode Global: VH92T.F2J8

Plus Code: 9C4V5QWH+F3

Entry Name: 24, Foregate Street

Listing Date: 8 March 1974

Last Amended: 5 July 2001

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1389807

English Heritage Legacy ID: 488758

ID on this website: 101389807

Location: Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1

County: Worcestershire

District: Worcester

Electoral Ward/Division: Arboretum

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Worcester

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire

Church of England Parish: Worcester St Nicholas and All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

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Description



WORCESTER

SO8455SE FRIAR STREET
620-1/12/249 (East side)
08/3/74 No.24

GV II

House, now offices. c1830 with later additions and
alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond with stucco to ground
floor; stone architraves and cornice, slate roof and truncated
brick left end and rear stacks with pot at left; cast-iron
balcony. Single depth plan with rear stairhall and rear range
to left. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing
includes horizontal rustication to ground floor. Ground floor
has two 6/1 sashes. Entrance at right a
6-raised-and-fielded-panel door with overlight and panelled
reveals (with lower flush panels). First floor has 6-pane
French windows and divided overlights in plain reveals and
with tooled architraves with cornices on console brackets.
Continuous balcony with double-scrolled balusters. Second
floor has 3/6 sashes in tooled architraves and with sills.
Double ovolo and step moulded cornice. Left return: end
entrance a 4-panel door with Doric pilasters, entablature and
cornice. 4/4 sashes in plain reveals and with sills.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has moulded cornice with acanthus
modillions and fleurons with frieze, ceiling rose. Openwell
staircase has carved tread ends and wreathed handrail with
turned balusters. First floor has marble fireplace to front
room, cornice has fleurons; 4-panel doors.
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).


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