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).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669261

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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