Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE FRIAR STREET
620-1/12/256 (West side)
22/05/54 No.38

GV II

House, now offices. Mid C18 with later additions and
alterations including those of mid C20. Pinkish-red brick in
Flemish bond with stone sills and copings, plain tile roof
with hip to front and tall left end pinkish-red brick stack
with pots. 3 storeys plus attic, 2 first floor windows. First
floor has 1/1 horned sashes; second floor has 6/6 sashes; all
in near-flush frames and with sills and flat arches of gauged
brick. Coped parapet partly conceals box dormer with
multi-pane casement window. Ground floor has glazed shop front
and part-glazed door at right in tooled stucco surround with
frieze and cornice.
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 Q26669239

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