Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE FRIAR STREET
620-1/12/252 (West side)
22/05/54 No.33
Restdale House
(Formerly Listed as:
FRIAR STREET
(West side)
No.33)

GV II

House. Late C18 with later alterations. Pinkish-red brick in
Flemish bond with stucco to ground floor, scored in imitation
of ashlar; stone sills, bands, copings and architrave; plain
tile roof and brick stacks to rear with pots. 3 storeys, 4
first-floor windows. First floor has 6/6 sashes in plain
reveals and with continuous sill band; second floor has 6/6
sashes in near-flush frames with sills; all wit flat arches of
gauged brick. Ground floor: chamfered plinth; central
entrance, 3 roll-edged steps to 6-raised-and-fielded-panel
door with overlight with radial glazing bars in doorcase with
fluted composite pilasters, dentil entablature and hood.
Ground floor has 2 tripartite windows with 6/6 between 2/2
sashes in plain reveals and with sills and flat, stuccoed
arches.
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
significant 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 Q26669235

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