Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW FRIAR STREET
620-1/17/293 (East side)
05/04/71 No.31
The Cardinal's Hat
Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
FRIAR STREET
(East side)
Nos.29 AND 31
The Chattery (No.29);
Davenport (No.31))

GV II

House, now public house. c1760, possibly with late C15 origins
and with later additions and alterations including ground
floor frontage at right c1900. Pinkish-orange brick in Flemish
bond, stone sills; with plain tile roof, half-hipped at right;
left end stacks with oversailing courses and pots. 3 storeys
with attic at rear, 3 first-floor windows. First and second
floors have fluted keystones and flat arches of gauged brick.
Replacement 12/12 sashes in near-flush frames, all with sills.
Dentil eaves cornice. Tudorbethan-style pub front; wide
off-centre right entrance has three doors, canted inwards, to
bars and hallway (alike): part-glazed with 4-centred light and
multi-pane overlight. Chamfered plinth; square panels of
imitation timber-framing; mullion and transom windows, that to
left has four lights, that to right has two lights, with
ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms; band of imitation
timber-framing over. Ovolo-moulded cornice.
INTERIOR: the tap room, to left, has decorative close
studding; stone chimneypiece has 4-centred arch, a plaster
relief of a cardinal's hat above. The lounge, to rear, has
c1900 panelling and boxed beams; similar stone chimneypiece
and Tudor style overmantel; fixed benches around the walls;
the windows have stained glass depicting a cardinal's hat. The
hall has a panelled dado with lozenge decoration. Open-newel
staircase has rod-on-vase balusters with square knops and
shaped handrail. Snug to left has decorative close studding.
HISTORICAL NOTE: there has been a public house on this site
called The Cardinal's Hat since at least 1497. John Gaskell, a
London carrier, bought the property in 1757 and subsequently
rebuilt it. In 1814 the property reverted to an inn, then
called the Coventry Arms. (Huges, P. and Molyneux, N.:
Worcester Street: Friar Street: Worcester: 1984-: PP. 13-14).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Cardinal's Hat Public House official website
• Wikidata Q26669272

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House