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SO8455SE
620-1/12/257

WORCESTER
FOREGATE STREET (West side)
No.39 (Vinegar House) and attached wall to south

(Formerly listed as FRIAR STREET (West side) No.39 and attached wall to south, previously Listed as: FRIAR STREET (West side) No.39)

22/05/54

GV
II

House with attached wall, unoccupied and disused at time of List Review. c1770 with later additions and alterations. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with stone sills, cornice and copings, stucco to plinth and to left return, cast-iron Carron Company balustrade, plain tile hipped roof and end reddish-orange brick stacks with oversailing courses and pots, stack to left is external.

Three storeys, five first-floor windows. Chamfered plinth. First floor has tall 6/9 sashes; second floor has 3/3 sashes; ground floor has 6/6 sashes; all in near-flush frames and with sills and flat arches of gauged brick. To first floor a continuous balcony with heart and anthaemeon motif balustrade. Crowning frieze and ovolo-moulded cornice, coped parapet. Central entrance: six-raised-and-fielded-panel door in panelled reveals with fanlight with gothic glazing bars and in pilastered doorcase with console brackets to open pediment. Left return has 6/6 sashes where original.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall at left of single storey and approximately 3.5 metres long with ramped and coped parapet and inserted gateway.

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.

(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 Q26669241

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)