Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE FRIAR STREET
620-1/12/255 (West side)
22/05/54 No.37

GV II

House, now shop and offices. c1730 with later additions and
alterations including c1930's shop front. Reddish-orange brick
in Flemish bond with stone sills, keystones and cornice;
stucco to ground floor; plain tile roof and end reddish-orange
brick stacks with oversailing courses and pots. 3 storeys plus
attic, 3 first-floor windows. First and second floors have 1/1
sashes in near-flush frames and with flat arches of gauged
brick and keystones, those to first floor are fluted and have
cornices, those to second floor have floral motif, moulded
sills. Wide pediment has acanthus modillions and central
oculus, otherwise crowning coped parapet. Raised and coped
gable ends. Ground floor: shaped plinth; entrance to left a
panelled door in Doric porch with triglyphs and metopes.
Window with bronze frame and acanthus motif at right. Frieze
and cornice over ground floor.
INTERIOR: panelled rooms to first- and ground-floors, with
marble fireplaces; panelled doors in moulded architraves; fine
dogleg staircase to rear with slender turned balusters with
nops, large cross-section ramped handrail, carved brackets to
open string, curtail step.
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.' An unusually
well-preserved example of an early Georgian town house
interior.
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.
(Tymbs: Worcester Guide: Worcester: 1802-: 60; Worcestershire
Historical Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead D: Urban
Renewal and Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian
Worcester: 1989-: 12).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669238

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)