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5, Friar Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Worcester, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1907 / 52°11'26"N

Longitude: -2.2187 / 2°13'7"W

OS Eastings: 385147

OS Northings: 254740

OS Grid: SO851547

Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.PVK

Mapcode Global: VH92T.H6FF

Plus Code: 9C4V5QRJ+7G

Entry Name: 5, Friar Street

Listing Date: 5 April 1971

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1389837

English Heritage Legacy ID: 488788

ID on this website: 101389837

Location: Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1

County: Worcestershire

District: Worcester

Electoral Ward/Division: Cathedral

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Worcester

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire

Church of England Parish: Worcester, St Martin's in the Cornmarket with St Swithun and St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

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Description



WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET
620-1/17/280 (East side)
05/04/71 No.5

GV II

House, now café on ground- and first-floor, residential on
second-floor. Believed to have origins in the C16 with later
additions and alterations including re-fronting/re-building in
the C18. Brick, painted to ground-floor, under hipped plain
clay tile roof. No visible stacks. Painted stone sills. Timber
shop-front.
Original plan, double-fronted, double-depth with staircase
between front and rear rooms; ground-floor now open plan.
Symmetrical elevation. Three storeys. Two first-floor windows,
8/8 sashes in near-flush frames under flat gauged-brick
arches, sills. 4/4 sashes to second-floor. Dentilled eaves.
Central part-glazed recessed door to largely 1920's shopfront
which has pilasters, console brackets and integral blind over
fascia panel. Separate access to upper floors via entrance in
left return. HISTORICAL NOTE: prior to insertion of the
shop-front in the 1920's, the premises were a baker's shop
with a pedimented doorway flanked by sash windows.
(Worcester Streets: Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar Street:
Worcester: 1984-: 1-3).


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