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21 and 23, Friar Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Worcester, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1899 / 52°11'23"N

Longitude: -2.2186 / 2°13'7"W

OS Eastings: 385151

OS Northings: 254646

OS Grid: SO851546

Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.PWZ

Mapcode Global: VH92T.H7G3

Plus Code: 9C4V5QQJ+WH

Entry Name: 21 and 23, Friar Street

Listing Date: 5 April 1971

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1389842

English Heritage Legacy ID: 488793

ID on this website: 101389842

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 Nicholas and All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

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Description



WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET
620-1/17/286 (East side)
05/04/71 Nos.21 AND 23

GV II

Originally 2 houses and shops with row of cottages at rear,
now 2 shops. 1739, possibly with C16 origins at south part and
with later additions and alterations including mid C19
ground-floor shop fronts. Stucco over brick, with timber-frame
and brick nogging to passage; renewed plain tile roof and
brick right end stack, truncated; timber shop fronts. 2
storeys with attics, 4 first-floor windows (2:2). First floor
has 6/6 sashes in near-flush frames and with sills. Modillion
eaves and. 3 attic dormers, 2 to left have casement windows
and are gabled, otherwise flat-roofed and with 3/6 sash.
Ground floor has shop fronts with pilaster strips, frieze and,
to right, cornice; glazed windows, that to left has 2
mullions, that to right has cylindrical mullion, on apron;
entrances at right and left are part-glaze doors, that at
right is recessed. Between shops a passageway giving access to
former cottages at rear. Passageway has rectangular panels of
timber framing.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: surveys made by the City of Worcester (who
owned the site) indicate that No.21 and the row of cottages at
the rear were 'new built in 1739'.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 328; Hughes P and Molyneux N: Friar
Street: 1984-: 10-11).


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