Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE FRIAR STREET
620-1/12/253 (West side)
05/04/71 Nos.34 AND 34A
(Formerly Listed as:
FRIAR STREET
(West side)
No.34)

GV II

House, now shop and flat. Late C18 with later additions and
alterations including those of mid C20 to ground-floor.
Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond, whitewashed to front
facade, with stone quoins and end brick stacks with
oversailing courses and pots. 3 storeys, 4 first-floor
windows. Raised quoins from first floor through second floor.
Crowning shaped cornice and coped parapet. First floor has 6/6
sashes; second floor has 3/3 sashes, all with flat arches of
gauged brick and keystones. Ground floor: glazed shop front
and off-centre, glazed, double doors. Entrance at right a
6-panel door with overlight, in beaded surround; continuous
cornice over ground floor.
INTERIOR: ground floor gutted, otherwise 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 (cons) 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 Q26669236

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)