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).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669266

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2